John Baptist De Medina

Biography:

Sir John Baptist Medina or John Baptiste de Medina (1659 – 5 October 1710) was an artist of Flemish-Spanish origin who worked in England and Scotland, mostly as a portrait painter, though he was also the first illustrator of Paradise Lost by John Milton in 1688. Medina was the son of a Spanish army captain posted to Brussels, where he was born and ...