The Holy Family

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There are no records of where Vermeyen was trained as an artist. Opinions vary as to whether it was with Jan van Scorel, Bernard van Orley, or Jan Gossart. The Holy Family is certainly indebted to Gossart's Virgin and Child in the Prado, particularly in the poses of the figures and the articulation of their bodies.

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About the Artist

Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen

1500 – 1559

Netherlandish painter and tapestry designer, probably a pupil of Mabuse. About 1525 he became Court Painter to Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands at Mechelen and in 1535 he accompanied the Emperor Charles V to Tunis. This journey supplied him with scenes for later works, including tapestries designed 1545/48 for the Regent, Mary of Hungary. At present many portraits are ascribed to him on very little evidence, as an alternative to Scorel, Heemskerck or Lucas van Leyden.

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