Guess the Artist

Your first clues for 2012 are:

• The artist was born in France, but only according to modern boundaries.
• A "Northerner," this artist was the first non-Italian to travel to Rome and sketch its antiquities.
• The artist kept the Prince-Bishop of Utrecht, Philip of Burgundy, well supplied with erotic nudes. (Well, erotic in their day. Now? Not so much.)
  
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• The three sitters in this portrait are royals whose father was known by the sobriquet "The Tyrant" due to murderous actions in Sweden. Of the three, only the two girls made it adulthood, and the youngest girl -- the baby here -- had her portrait painted again about 15 years later, when Henry VIII had his scouts poking around Europe for a fourth wife. Do you know who she was and who she went on to marry instead, after rejecting England's offer? (There's another clue for you: she was smart enough to like keeping her head attached to her body.)

Please email me your guesses over the coming week. I'll post the winner and correct answer with next week's guessing game. Good luck!

Last Week's Answer:

Nancy was first last week with the artist's name: Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). His painting Working In Marble or The Artist Sculpting Tanagra (1890) supplied the name I sought in its title: Jean-Léon Gérôme (a.k.a. "The Artist"). Our clever friend Val sent that answer in at the speed of light, and an astounding number of you sent in the titles of every artwork shown in this peek at Gérôme's studio. Congrats to Nancy and Val, and kudos all around!