Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (b.1500, Beverwijk – d.1559, Bruxelles)
was a Dutch Northern Renaissance painter.
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 to Tunis. This journey supplied him with scenes
for later works, including tapestries designed 1545/48 for the Regent,
Mary of Hungary.
Many portraits are ascribed to him on very little evidence, according
to modern scholars.
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