Hans Bol or Jan Bol (16 December 1534 – 20 November 1593), was a Flemish painter, print artist, miniaturist painter and draftsman. He is known for his landscapes, allegorical and biblical scenes, and genre paintings executed in a late Northern Mannerist style.
After a rich career in Flanders, he left his house country for the Dutch Republic during the Siege of Antwerp. His landscape take steps had an important influence upon the bordering generation of Dutch landscape painters. His prints after his own designs as skillfully as those of Flemish masters such as Pieter Brueghel the Elder contributed to the improve of their themes in the Northern Netherlands.
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