Marinus van Reymerswaele

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Marinus Claeszoon van Reymerswaele (Reimerswaal, The Netherlands, c. 1490 – Goes c. 1546) was a Dutch painter. He worked in Zeeland from 1533-1545. Hence he is also named Marinus de Seeu (from Zeeland). He studied at the University of Leuven (1504) and was trained as a painter in Antwerp (1509).

His name is known from a small number of signed panels. Another number of paintings is attributed to Marinus on stylistic grounds. His oeuvre consists of a relatively small numbers of themes only, mostly adapted from Quentin Massys and Albrecht Dürer:

• The moneychanger and his wife
• Two tax collectors
• The lawyer’s office
• Saint Jerome in his study
• The calling of Matthew

A large group of tax collectors are wrongly attributed to Marinus. His themes were popular in the sixteenth century and his paintings copied many times.

[edit] Signed work

• Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts
  • Saint Jerome in his study (1541)
• Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1541)
• El Escorial, Escorial
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1538)
• Florence, Bargello
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1540)
• Kopenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1540)
• Madrid, Museo del Prado
  • Saint Jerome in his study (1521?)
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1539)
  • Saint Jerome in his study (1541)
• München, Alte Pinakothek
  • The lawyer’s office (1542)
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1538)
• New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art
  • The lawyer’s office (1545)

[edit] Other work

• Antwerpen, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten
  • Two tax collectors
• London, National Gallery
  • Two tax collectors (ca. 1540)
• Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
  • The calling of Matthew
• Paris, Louvre
  • Two tax collectors (ca. 1540)
• Saint Petersburg, Hermitage
  • The moneychanger and his wife
• Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
  • Two tax collectors
• Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
  • The unmerciful servant