an eminent painter, was son of Medina de l'Pasturias, a Spanish captain, who settled at Brussels, where the subject of this notice was born in 1660. He was instructed in painting by Duchatel, under whose direction he made great progress; and applying himself to the study of Rubens, he made that eminent master his principal model. He painted both historical subjects, and portraits, and was held in extraordinary estimation by most of the princes of Germany, who distinguished his merit by several marks of honour. He married young, and came into England in 1686, where he painted portraits for several years, with great reputation, exhibiting remarkable freedom of touch, with a delicate management of tints, and producing a strong resemblance to the originals. The Earl of Leven encouraged him to go to Scotland, and procured him employment there to the extent of £500. He went thither, carrying a large number of bodies and postures, to which he afterwards painted heads. He returned to England for a short time, but went back to Scotland, where he died, and was buried in the churchyard of the Greyfriars at Edinburgh, in 1711, aged fifty-two. He painted most of the Scotch nobility. Medina was knighted by the Duke of Queensberry, lord high commissioner, and was the last knight made in Scotland before the Union.