Jan van Hemessen
(1500–1575) Flemish painter
Jan van Hemessen (1500–1575) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Jan van Hemessen belongs to the chapter ‘Mannerism’ in this site’s history of art.
Jan van Hemessen was born in Hemiksem and died in Antwerp. Jan van Hemessen studied under Hendrick van Cleve III. Jan van Hemessen worked in Antwerp, Italy, and Antwerp. Wikidata associates Jan van Hemessen with Mannerism. Jan van Hemessen became a member of Hemessen family.
One of the best-known works is ‘Allegory (Nature as the Nursemaid of Art)’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 53 works by Jan van Hemessen with free images. The dated works span the years 1500–1619. Works by Jan van Hemessen are held by several collections, among them Kunsthistorisches Museum, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Kungliga museet för sköna konster i Belgien, and Gemäldegalerie. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Mannerism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Dust Muhammad, Domenico Campagnola, Lucas Gassel, Jacob Binck, and Girolamo Bedoli-Mazzola.