Adriaen Isenbrandt or Adriaen Ysenbrandt (between 1480 and 1490 – July 1551) was a painter in Bruges, in the answer years of Early Netherlandish painting, and the first of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting of the Northern Renaissance. Documentary evidence suggests he was a significant and rich artist of his period, even though no specific works by his hand are usefully documented. Art historians have conjectured that he operated a large workshop specializing in religious subjects and devotional paintings, which were executed in a conservative style in the tradition of the Early Netherlandish painting of the previous century. By his time, the new well-to-do economy of Antwerp had made this the middle of painting in the Low Countries, but the previous middle of Bruges retained considerable prestige.
He was believed by Georges Hulin de Loo to be the similar person as the anonymous Master of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin or Pseudo-Mostaert. Other art historians doubt that any works can be reliably endorsed to him, and the number of paintings attributed to him by major museums has been in grow less for many decades.
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