Maarten de Vos
(1532–1603) flamländsk 1600-talsmålare
Maarten de Vos (1532–1603) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Maarten de Vos belongs to the chapter ‘Mannerism’ in this site’s history of art.
Maarten de Vos was born in Antwerp and died in Antwerp. Maarten de Vos worked in Italy, Antwerp, and Celle. Maarten de Vos became a member of Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. The students included Justus Sustermans.
The best-known works include ‘Portrait of Gillis Hooftman (1521-81). Shipowner, and his wife Margaretha van Nispen (b 1545)’, ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’, ‘The Rape of Europa’, and ‘Portrait of an unicorn’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 122 works by Maarten de Vos with free images. The dated works span the years 1500–1639. Works by Maarten de Vos are held by several collections, among them Belgiens kungliga bibliotek, Vlaamse Kunstcollectie, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, and Musea Brugge. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Mannerism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Alonso Sánchez Coello, Bernardo Buontalenti, Girolamo Muziano, Dominicus Lampsonius, and Giacomo della Porta.