Artists
Jan Sanders van Hemessen
- Country:
- Netherlands
- Birth year:
- 1504
- Death year:
- 1556
Jan Sanders van Hemessen (c. 1504 Hemiksen bei Antwerp-after 1556 Haarlem) appears in official documentation in 1519 as a pupil of Hendrick van Clever in Antwerp. He was accepted into Antwerp's guild of St. Luke as a master painter in 1524, becoming its dean in 1548. Although there is no documentary proof that he traveled to Italy, his stylistic development certainly attests to a stay south of the alps. In 1550 van Hemessen moved to Haarlem. He painted history and genre pictures, and is considered one of the more important representatives of the Roman style in Netherlandish painting in the second quarter of the 16th century. His daughter, Catharina van Hemessen (1528-1587) also became a noteworthy painter. Among the artist's works are The Last Judgement, 1537, Saint Jacobskerk, Antwerp; and The Mocking of Christ, 1544, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.