Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen
Johannes Wierix, CC0

(1504–1559) Dutch painter (c. 1504 – 1559)

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (1504–1559) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen belongs to the chapter ‘Mannerism’ in this site’s history of art.

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen was born in Beverwijk and died in Brussels. Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen worked in Habsburg Netherlands.

The best-known works include ‘Portrait of Charles V (1500-58), emperor of the Holy Roman Empire’, ‘Portrait of Erard de la Marck’, and ‘The Marriage at Cana’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 34 works by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen with free images. The dated works span the years 1501–1600. Works by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen are held by several collections, among them Kunsthistorisches Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Clark Art Institute, and Jack and Belle Linsky. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Augustin Hirschvogel, Susanna Horenbout, Agnolo Bronzino, Michele Tosini, and Pedro de Campaña.