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John Baptist Medina
Flemish-Spanish artist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir John Baptist Medina or John Baptiste de Medina (1659 ā 5 October 1710)[1] 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.[2]
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