Marinus van Reymerswaele

The moneychanger and his wife (1539), Museo del Prado, Madrid

Two tax collectors (c. 1540), National Gallery, Londen

Saint Jerome in his study (1541), Museo del Prado, Madrid

Marinus Claeszoon van Reymerswaele (Reimerswaal, Netherlands, c. 1490 – Goes c. 1546) was a Dutch painter. He worked in Zeeland from 1533-1545. Hence he is also named Marinus de Seeu (from Zeeland). He studied at the University of Leuven (1504) and was trained as a painter in Antwerp (1509).

His name is known from a small number of signed panels. A number of other paintings are attributed to Marinus on stylistic grounds. His oeuvre consists of a relatively small numbers of themes only, mostly adapted from Quentin Massys and Albrecht Dürer:

• The moneychanger and his wife
• Two tax collectors
• The lawyer’s office
• Saint Jerome in his study
• The calling of Matthew

A large group of tax collectors are wrongly attributed to Marinus. His themes were popular in the sixteenth century and his paintings copied many times.

Signed work

• Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts
  • Saint Jerome in his study (1541)
• Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1541)
• El Escorial, Escorial
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1538)
• Florence, Bargello
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1540)
• Kopenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1540)
• Madrid, Museo del Prado
  • Saint Jerome in his study (1521?)
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1539)
  • Saint Jerome in his study (1541)
• München, Alte Pinakothek
  • The lawyer’s office (1542)
  • The moneychanger and his wife (1538)
• New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art
  • The lawyer’s office (1545)

Other work

• Maastricht, Bonnefanten Museum
  • Saint Jerome in his study (1541)
• Antwerpen, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten
  • Two tax collectors
• London, National Gallery
  • Two tax collectors (ca. 1540)
• Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
  • The calling of Matthew
• Paris, Louvre
  • Two tax collectors (ca. 1540)
• Saint Petersburg, Hermitage
  • Two tax collectors
• Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
  • Two tax collectors
• Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
  • The unmerciful servant

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