Niccolò di Buonaccorso

Niccolò di Buonaccorso worked in Siena in the second half of the fourteenth century, when the city's painters were prized across Europe for jewel-like precision. He joined the Sienese painters' guild in 1355, was likely trained by his father Buonaccorso di Pace, and painted on a small, exacting scale, laying down tooled gold and colour like a manuscript illuminator.

Only two works carry his signature. One is a panel of the Marriage of the Virgin, now in London's National Gallery, part of a dispersed set that shows his gift for crowded, courtly ceremony. He was also a man of civic standing, serving in Siena's government in the 1370s and elected honorary standard-bearer of his parish in 1381. He died in 1388.