Jan van Amstel, or Jan de Hollander, (c. 1500 – c. 1542) was a Dutch
Northern Renaissance
The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps, developing later than the Italian Renaissance, and in most respects only beginning in the last years of the 15th century. It took different forms in the vari ...
painter.
Jan van Amstel was born in
Amsterdam
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. In or before 1528, van Amstel moved to
Antwerp
Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest city in Belgium by area at , after ...
; in that year he joined the city's
Guild of Saint Luke
The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was iden ...
. He married Adriane van Doornicke, who would after his death remarry and give birth in 1544 to the future painter
Gillis van Coninxloo
Gillis van Coninxloo (now also referred to as Gillis van Coninxloo II but previously referred to as Gillis van Coninxloo III) (24 January 1544 – January 1607) was a Flemish painter of landscapes who played an important role in the development ...
. He is also probably the older brother of
Pieter Aertsen
Pieter Aertsen (1508, Amsterdam – 2 June 1575, Amsterdam), called ''Lange Piet'' ("Tall Pete") because of his height, was a Dutch painter in the style of Northern Mannerism. He is credited with the invention of the monumental genre scene, whi ...
and the brother-in-law of
. He died in Antwerp.
Van Amstel is possibly identical to
The Brunswick Monogrammist
The Brunswick Monogrammist or Master of the Brunswick Monogram was an anonymous Netherlandish Renaissance painter, active in the mid-to-late 16th century. He (or she) painted religious scenes but also several scenes of secular merriment, inclu ...
, for the signature J. V. AMSL appears on the latter's ''The Feeding of the Poor'' or ''Feeding of the Five Thousand''.
See also
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Flemish painting
Flemish painting flourished from the early 15th century until the 17th century, gradually becoming distinct from the painting of the rest of the Low Countries, especially the modern Netherlands. In the early period, up to about 1520, the painti ...
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List of Dutch painters
This is a list of Dutch painters who were born and/or were primarily active in the Netherlands. For artists born and active in the Southern Netherlands, see the List of Flemish painters. The artists are sorted by century and then alphabetically b ...
External links
Jan van Amstelpage on Artcyclopedia
Info at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
1500s births
1540s deaths
Dutch Renaissance painters
16th-century Dutch people
Early Netherlandish painters
Painters from Amsterdam
Painters from Antwerp
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