The early Flemish painters: notices of their lives and works . used Stephen to incur increased means certainly became straightened. A new^ loanbecame necessary in 1448, and Loethener mortgagedhis house and promised to pay yearly ten Rhenishflorins as a perpetual charge. In 1451 the guild againchose him to represent their body in the senate, butthis was the painters ruin apparently; for he retiredbefore the expiration of his legal tenure of office, andthe mortgagee seized his house. Quad in the TeutscherNation Herrligkeit*2—says, that Albert Durer onhis way down (to Flanders) came
The early Flemish painters: notices of their lives and works . used Stephen to incur increased means certainly became straightened. A new^ loanbecame necessary in 1448, and Loethener mortgagedhis house and promised to pay yearly ten Rhenishflorins as a perpetual charge. In 1451 the guild againchose him to represent their body in the senate, butthis was the painters ruin apparently; for he retiredbefore the expiration of his legal tenure of office, andthe mortgagee seized his house. Quad in the TeutscherNation Herrligkeit*2—says, that Albert Durer onhis way down (to Flanders) came to a powerful city(Cologne), and was invited by the authorities to look ata noble picture (Stephens). He admired it greatlywhereupon he was tauntingly informed that the artisthad died in a hospital. Was it not strange, he wastold, that men^should be found willing to follow so poor 1 Merlo (J. J.) Die Meister der Alt-kolnischen 110 to 121. 2 Quad. ap. Merlo.—Nachrichten von dem Leben und denWerken Kolnischer Kiinstler. 8. Koln 1850. p. nON OF THE MAGI,hener, in the Cathedral of Coloi
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