Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen
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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, sister of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at Mechelen and in 1535 he accompanied the Emperor Charles V, the brother of the Archduchess, at the Conquest of Tunis (1535). He is known to have painted there the Hafsid King of Tunis Moulay Hassan, in a still existing portrait.
The Tunisian Hafsid Sultans were seen at the time by the Spanish Nasri, Portuguese, Genoese, Venetian, French, Castilian and Aragones Diplomats, since around 1270, under Muhammad I al-Mustansir , as the Almohad Arabic speaking business traders located in the Western North Africa between Tlemcen, Alger, and Tripoli, hindered by the Eastern Turkish-Ottoman Navies since the middle of the XV Century .
This journey supplied him with scenes for later works, including tapestries designed 1545/48 for their sister Regent of Hungary , Mary of Hungary. He died in Brussels.
Many portraits are ascribed to him on very little evidence, according to modern scholars.
References
- ^ Template:Languageicon Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck, 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- 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.
- https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/corre/www/franca/edition2/haedo.2.html. IT edited by Univ. of Winsconsin, U.S.A.
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