Vrancke van der Stockt

Redemption Triptych (c. 1455-59), oil on wood, 195 cm (76.8 in) x 326 cm (128.3 in). Collection Museo del Prado, Madrid

Vrancke van der Stockt (before 1420 - 14 June 1495) was an early Netherlandish painter. He is most notable as a "direct heir and popularizer" of Rogier van der Weyden. He would often reproduce motifs from paintings by Van der Weyden with only minor alterations, as is evidenced by Kneeling Donor with Saint John the Baptist, now in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, in which the figure of the saint closely resembles that in Van der Weyden's Medici Madonna. His Pietà is likewise modelled on van der Weyden's Pietà.

Although he was primarily a painter, Van der Stockt also completed cartoons for embroideries and tapestries and designs for woodcuts.

None of Van der Stockt's works are documented; rather, they have been attributed to him based on their stylistic relationship to the Redemption triptych, now in the collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The Redemption triptych itself was not attributed to Van der Stockt until the 1920s.

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