_Adrian Ysenbrandt_ (Flemish: died 1551).
Ysenbrandt was an assistant of Gerard David (see 1045). He
came to Bruges, and was admitted into the Painters' Guild in
1510; he worked there till his death. He acquired a reputation
for skill in painting the nude and the human countenance;
his carefulness of execution and the sweetness of expression
which he gave to his faces were much admired. Many of his
pictures were sent to Spain (see W. H. Weale in the _Burlington
Magazine_, vol. ii.).
This picture of the Magdalen, before whom an angel holds a crucifix,
was in the Exhibition of the Primitives at Bruges in 1902. The artist's
careful execution may be noted in the beautifully illuminated MS.