MASTER of 1416
Italian painter. This anonymous master takes his name from an altarpiece, signed 1416, depicting the Madonna and Child with Sts John the Baptist, Anthony Abbot, Julian and Peter, now in the Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence. A substantial body of work is associated with this master.
In addition to small devotional works, the master painted some secular works such as the marriage salver of Ameto’s Discovery of the Nymphs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On the basis of the master’s affinity with the late Gothic Florentine painter Lorenzo di Niccolò, it is suggested that he may be identified with two relatives of Lorenzo di Niccolò’s who shared a workshop: his nephew Bartolomeo di Piero (c. 1390-1427⁄31) and his son Piero di Lorenzo (1402-1451). It can be assumed that the works by the Master of 1416 are the product of the workshop they shared.