Jan Wellens de Cock (c. 1480 – 1527) was a Flemish painter and draftsman of the Northern Renaissance.
Little is known virtually his liveliness and career. He was probably born in Leiden in Holland but approved in Antwerp. In 1506 Jan is recorded in the chronicles of the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp as having in style an apprentice called ‘Loduwyck’. It is hazy in which year Jan became a master. Jan Wellens de Cock could be identical following a certain ‘Jan Van Leyen’ (Jan of Leiden) who became a master in 1503–1504. On 6 August 1502 Jan Wellens de Cock married Clara, the daughter of Peter van Beeringen. Jan Wellens de Cock was probably identical to the ‘Jan de Cock’ that worked as a servant to the guild of ‘Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Lof’ for which he executed many commissions over the bordering few years. In 1507 de Cock was paid for painting angels and restoring the Holy Ghost at the altar of this guild in Antwerp Cathedral. These works were probably drifting in the “beeldenstorm” of 1566. In 1511 the guild paid de Cock for sour a woodblock for a print to use in the guild’s procession. This is the without help indication that de Cock, to whom several prints have been attributed, was indeed nimble as a block cutter.
In 1520 he was dean of the guild of Saint Luke, together past Joos van Cleve. Jan’s artistic objection has been the subject of considerable controversy, and there is not a single play in that can be qualified to him similar to certainty. The attributions made by Friedländer were forward-thinking refuted by N. Beets and G.J. Hoogewerff. While new attributions have been suggested by many new authors.
He was daddy to two sons who went upon to become Good artists in their own right. Matthys Cock (1505–1548) was a well-known painter of landscapes and his brother Hieronymus Cock (1518–1570) originally trained as a painter and landscapist past becoming a prolific publisher and printmaker. As landscape played an important role in the proceed of both his sons it has often been suggested that the statute of de Cock focused upon this genre as well. The works attributed to Jan generally link the so-called instructor of Antwerp Mannerism and/or proceed the have emotional impact of Hieronymus Bosch.
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