Dates | Dutch, about 1515 - 1568 |
Nationality | Dutch / Italian |
Born and trained in Amsterdam, Lambert Sustris spent most of his life in Italy. In the early 1530s he was in Rome, shifting to Venice around 1535. There he probably worked in Titian's workshop, where he may have specialized in landscapes. After contact with followers of Francesco Salviati around 1540, Sustris incorporated Salviati's sophisticated, linear Florentine
In 1548 Sustris was in Bavaria, probably with Titian, who was then official painter at the court of Holy Roman