About this work
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606 to 1669) is one of the most famous, controversial, and one of the best expertly researched (visual) artists in history. For a visual artist in general and an Old Master in particular, Rembrandt has been the subject of a vast amount of literature that includes both fiction and nonfiction works. The field of Rembrandt studies (study of Rembrandt's life and work, including works by his pupils and followers), as an academic field in its own right with several noted Rembrandt connoisseurs and scholars, has been one of the most dynamic research areas of Netherlandish art history.
About Jan Gossaert
Jan Gossaert was a French-speaking painter from the Low Countries also known as Jan Mabuse or Jennyn van Hennegouwe (Hainaut), as he called himself when he matriculated in the Guild of Saint Luke, at Antwerp, in 1503. He was one of the first painters of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting to visit Italy and Rome, which he did in 1508–09, and a leader of the style known as Romanism, which brought elements of Italian Renaissance painting to the north, sometimes with a rather awkward effect. He achieved fame across at least northern Europe, and painted religious subjects, including large altarpieces, portraits and mythological subjects.
Where it hangs
Portrait of a Man, possibly Jan Snoeck is in the collection of National Gallery of Art.
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