Alonso Sánchez Coello | Timeline

Alonso Sánchez Coello (Portuguese: Alonso Sanches Coelho 1531 – 8 August 1588) was a Spanish portrait painter, of Portuguese origin, of the Spanish Renaissance and one of the pioneers of the great tradition of Spanish portrait painting. (Wikipedia)


January(?) 1(?), 1531 - Benifairó de les Valls - Alonso Sánchez Coello is born, near Valencia
January(?) 1(?), 1541 - Lisbon - 10-year old Sánchez Coello goes to Lisbon (Portugal)
January(?) 1(?), 1549 - Brussels - King John III grants a scholarship to Sánchez Coello to study in Brussels with Anthonis Mor =(START)
January(?) 1(?), 1552 - Lisbon -  Travels to Lisbon with Anthonis Mor, when Charles V commissioned Mor to paint the portuguese Royal Family
January 15(?), 1554 - Lisbon - After the death of Crown-Prince João Manuel, his employer, Sánchez Coello moves to the spanish Court
February(?) 1(?), 1554 - Valladolid - Sánchez Coello starts working for the Spanish Court
January(?) 1(?), 1560 - Valladolid - Sánchez Coello marries Luisa Reyaltes
June 1(?), 1561 - Madrid - Settles in Madrid, to where the Spanish court moved
August 8, 1588 - Madrid - Alonso Sánchez Coello dies =(END)