Frans Mostaert

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Frans Mostaert (1528–1560) was a Dutch Renaissance painter.

Biography

Mostaert was born in Hulst. According to Karel van Mander he was the son of a common painter, the twin brother of the painter Gillis Mostaert and the grandson of the painter Jan Mostaert.^[1] Gillis looked so much like him that their own father couldn't tell them apart.^[1] Both brothers joined the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1555.^[1] While his brother Gillis studied landscape painting in Haarlem from Jan Mandijn, Frans became a pupil of Herri met de Bles and later became an inspiration for Jan Soens, who worked for a period in Gillis Mostaert's workshop in Antwerp before leaving for Parma, Italy.^[1]

Frans died of the plague in Antwerp, after his new pupil Bartholomeus Spranger had been with him for a few weeks.^[1] Few of his works survive, though he had been a respectable landscape painter before his death.

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References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 (Dutch) Frans en Gillis Mostart in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck, 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

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Persondata
Name	Mostaert, Frans
Alternative names
Short description	painter
Date of birth	1528
Place of birth	Hulst
Date of death	1560
Place of death	Antwerp

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