Who is Jan Mostaert?

Jan Mostaert (c. 1475 – 1552/1553) was a Dutch Renaissance painter who is known mainly for his religious subjects and portraits. One of his most famous creations was the Landscape once an Episode from the Conquest of America.

There are unquestionably few details roughly the life of Jan Mostaert that are known with any certainty. The traditional account of his spirit was based upon the biography written by the 16th century Flemish performer and art historian Karel van Mander and included in his Schilder-boeck, published in Haarlem in 1604. Modern scholarship questions many of the assertions approximately the sparkle of Mostaert made by Karel van Mander.

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One of these is van Mander’s upholding that he was appointed ‘painctre aux honneurs’ (“painter once honors”) by Margaret of Austria, the proprietor of the Habsburg Netherlands; it does not seem that he became Margaret’s court painter, although there are two mentions of him in her accounting records. Recent art historians think he probably worked in the provincial town of Haarlem, some habit from the larger cities of the southern Netherlands, for anything or most of his career.

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