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Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

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Jan Vermeyen by Jan Wierix.
Portrait of Mercurino Gattinara by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (c. 1530), on display at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, or Jan Mayo, or Barbalonga (c.1500–1559) was a Dutch Northern Renaissance painter.

Biography

According to Karel van Mander he was born in Beverwijk in 1500 and was honored for his career in the service of Charles V.[1] He was a friend of Jan van Scorel and his portrait was engraved by Jan Wierix for Dominicus Lampsonius.

Vermeyen was a painter and tapestry designer, probably a pupil of Jan Mabuse. About 1525 he became Court Painter to Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands at Mechelen and in 1535 he accompanied the Emperor Charles V, at the Conquest of Tunis (1535). This journey supplied him with scenes for later works, including tapestries designed 1545/48 for the Regent, Mary of Hungary. He died in Brussels.

Many portraits are ascribed to him on very little evidence, according to modern scholars.

References

  • Horn, Hendrick . J., Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, painter of Charles V and his conquest of Tunis, Paintings, Etchings, Drawings, Cartoons and Tapestries , 2 vols., Doornspijk, 1989.504 pp. , + 340 ills. in b/w and 32 in col. , 4to, orig. cloth/d-jacket.


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