Jan van Amstel
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Jan van Amstel (c. 1500, Amsterdam – c. 1542 Antwerp) was a Dutch Northern Renaissance painter.
In or before 1528, van Amstel moved to Antwerp, when he joined its Guild of Saint Luke. He married Adriane van Doornicke, who would after his death remarry and give birth in 1544 to the future painter Gillis van Coninxloo. He is also probably the older brother of Pieter Aertsen and the brother-in-law of Pieter van Aelst.
Van Amstel is possibly identical to The Brunswick Monogrammist, for the signature J. V. AMSL appears on the latter's The Feeding of the Poor or Feeding of the Five Thousand
[edit] External links
- Jan van Amstel page on Artcyclopedia
- Info at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
