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Jan Swart van Groningen (c. 1495 in
Jan Swart van Groningen (c. 1495 in Groningen
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– c. 1563 in Antwerp
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), was a Dutch Renaissance painter.
Biography
According to Karel van Mander he was in Gouda in 1522–1523, at the same time thatJan van Scorel
Jan van Scorel (1 August 1495 – 6 December 1562) was a Dutch painter, who played a leading role in introducing aspects of Italian Renaissance painting into Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. He was one of the early painters of the Roman ...
was there, who had just returned from Italy. He could paint landscape and flesh tones in the manner of Scorel, and travelled to Italy himself, spending time in Venice.