Career
His birth and death dates are unknown. On the basis of his name, which means "English", it is believed that Inglés" birthplace may have been in England. From his style it has been inferred that the artist possibly trained in the Low Countries.
The only documentary evidence on this painter is the codicil to a will of Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, dated 6 June June 1455.
The altarpiece is regarded as the earliest Hispano-Flemish painting in Spain. The choice for Jorge Inglés shows that he was already a well-known painter by that time.
Jorge Inglés enlarged the settings in his compositions through the use of bold perspective effects. He filled the interiors with carpets, flagstones and canopies.
He paid attention to details to suggest atmosphere and usually created a openings to reveal a landscape in the distance.
Altarpiece of the Gozos de Santa María Íñigo López de Mendoza who commissioned the Altarpiece of the Gozos de Santa María was a major poet and devotee of science. López de Mendoza was also particularly devoted to his family and the Virgin. The latter is reflected in his devotional verses known as the Gozos de Santa María, which inspired the altarpiece.
Some of the verses are inscribed on the scrolls carried by the angels at the top of the composition.
The altarpiece retains part of the original structure and traceries and all the paintings executed by Jorge Ingléson Above the predella with the busts of the Fathers of the Church Íñigo López de Mendoza himself is depicted.
This is the only surviving painted portrait of a Castilian nobleman. The image of the Virgin is a replacement of the original, mid-15th-century Flemish image which is lost.
This work is on display since 2012 at the Museo del Prado thanks to an agreement with Íñigo de Arteaga y Martín, 19th Duke of the Infantado, its present owner.
Other works.
