King David endorsing the succession of Solomon

Active in Valencia at the end of the fifteenth century, the Játiva Master was named after the town where several of his works were identified by C.R. Post in his monumental History of Spanish Painting. The artist worked in the prevailing style that had been popularised in his native city by Jaime Baço, called Jacomart (c. 1410-1461) and Juan Reixach (active 1431-1482), displaying the increasing influence of Netherlandish painting in the Iberian Peninsula. This panel would originally have formed part of a large retable, probably as a side panel flanking a central image.