Jan Sanders van Hemessen

Jan van Hemessen (actually Jan Sanders; * 1500 Hemiksem at Antwerp; † before 1566 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch painter.

Hemessen 1519 was a student of Hendrik van Cleve and was at 1524 Masters. In 1548 he was dean of the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp, and in 1550 he moved to Haarlem, where he died before 1566. Jan van Hemessen was the father of Catarina van Hemessen.

He painted almost exclusively biblical images of a large scale in the stiff, dry and cumbersome nature of the old school one by incorporating multiple operations on an image. He stayed mostly on the elderly Brueghel and Quintin Massys, but without reaching the latter in the power of colourways. His main works are:

  • Matthew vocation to the apostleship (Vienna, Belvedere, in three different copies, Antwerp, Munich, Ghent )
  • The Healing of Tobias (Paris, Louvre. )
  • Maria with the child and the village surgeon ( Madrid).
  • The Calling of Matthew, Bucharest, Muzeul National de Arta al Romaniei.
  • Lady with a Lute, wood, 102 x 74 cm. Berlin, Staatliche Museen Foundation ( West), Gemäldegalerie.
  • The Prodigal Son, 1536, wood, 140 × 198 cm. Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts.
  • The Goldwägerin, wood, 44 × 31 cm. Berlin, Staatliche Museen (East), Gemäldegalerie
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