Lucas van Leyden (1494 – 8 August 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, was a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut. Lucas van Leyden was in the middle of the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and was a categorically accomplished engraver.
Lucas was the son of the painter Huygh Jacobsz. He was born, died, and was mainly responsive in Leiden.
Carel van Mander characterizes Lucas as a tireless artist, who as a child motivated his mother by effective long hours after nightfall, which she forbade not only for the cost of candlelight, but as a consequence because she felt that too much testing was bad for his sensibilities. According to Van Mander, as a guy he lonesome consorted with additional young artists, such as painters, glass-etchers and goldsmiths, and was paid by the Heer van Lochorst (Johan van Lockhorst of Leiden, who died in 1510) a golden florin for each of his years at age 12 for a watercolor of St. Hubert.
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