- Jan van Amstel
Jan van Amstel (c. 1500,
Amsterdam – c. 1542 Antwerp) was a DutchNorthern Renaissance painter.In or before 1528, van Amstel moved to Antwerp, when he joined its
Guild of Saint Luke . He married Adriane van Doornicke, who would after his death remarry and give birth in 1544 to the future painterGillis van Coninxloo . He is also probably the older brother ofPieter Aertsen and the brother-in-law ofPieter van Aelst .Van Amstel is possibly identical to
The Brunswick Monogrammist , for the signature J. V. AMSL appears on the latter's "The Feeding of the Poor" or "Feeding of the Five Thousand"External links
* [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/amstel_jan_van.html Jan van Amstel] page on Artcyclopedia
* [http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArtists&search=priref=1582 Info at the Netherlands Institute for Art History]ee also
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List of Dutch painters
*Flemish painting
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