This is Jan Saenredam

Jan Pieterszoon Saenredam (1565 – 6 April 1607) was a Dutch Northern Mannerist painter, printmaker in engraving, and cartographer, and dad of the painter of church interiors, Pieter Jansz Saenredam. He is noted for the many allegorical images he created from classical mythology and the Bible.

Saenredam was born in Zaandam. As an orphan Jan lived later his uncle, Pieter de Jongh, a bailiff in Assendelft who first sent him to learn basket weaving as a profession. Being an apt student, he was taught reading and writing, but astonished his teachers behind he proved already correspondingly accomplished in this that he decked his texts considering curled decorations. An example of his penmanship could in imitation of be seen on display at Assum House near Heemskerk (residence of the Lord of Assendelft), which was his copywork of the ten commandments. Despite a decision that he follow a career in a trade or farming, he showed such artistic capacity that he started as an apprentice cartographer. His first map is old 1589 and is of the province of Holland, which could be seen in the city collection of Guiccardijn (referring to a 1593 take steps by Lodovico Guicciardini called The Description of the Low Countries). He was visited by a lawyer called Spoorwater tot Assendelft, who convinced his guardian to allow him apply his gift, and therefore young Saenredam was sent to learn drawing from Hendrick Goltzius in Haarlem, where he became a master at the age of 24 (in 1589).

After dynamic for some time subsequently Goltzius, he encountered the roughly inevitable professional rivalry and jealousy, prompting his departure to sham in Amsterdam for two years. He later returned to Assendelft where he married and set going on his own workshop. His first engraving was of the 12 apostles after a drawing by Karel van Mander. He produced prints after Goltzius, Abraham Bloemaert, Cornelis van Haarlem, Polidoro da Caravaggio, and his own invention. He made greater than 170 plates of which the last one was a history of Diana and Callisto by Paulus Moreelse in 1606. Two plates he was full of zip on, after drawings by Bartholomeus Spranger and Willem Thibaut, were finished far along by Jacob Matham.

According to the Rijksmuseum, he returned in 1595 from Amsterdam to Assendelft, where he married Anna Pauwelsdochter. Jan left his wife a sizeable estate hence of lucrative investments in the Dutch East India Company. He died of typhus on April 6, 1607 and was buried in the choir of the Saint Adolphus church at Assendelft, with the gravestone inscription Ioannis Saenredam Sculptoris celeberrimi. He died in Assendelft, aged more or less 41.