부산대학교 도서관

(b ?Leiden, c. 1490; d Antwerp before Jan 19, 1527). South Netherlandish painter and draughtsman. He is believed to be the painter who became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1503 under the name Jan van Leyen. In 1506 he took on a certain ‘Loduwijck’ as his student, and in 1516 Wouter Key (fl 1516–42) was apprenticed to him. In 1507–8 Jan was paid for painting angels and restoring the Holy Ghost in Antwerp Cathedral. He and Joos van Cleve became joint deans of the guild in 1520. His widow, Clara von Beeringen, was mentioned on 19 January 1527 as the wife of the landscape painter Frans Vermeer. The point of departure for the reconstruction of Jan Wellens de Cock’s oeuvre (according to Friedländer) was a painting of St Christopher (Germany, priv. col., see Friedländer, 1974, pl. 89), of which there exists a print that is inscribed Pictum/J. Cock (Hollstein, iv, p. 192). This painting is clearly related to the work of Cornelis Engebrechtsz., but it also shows strong affinities with the work of Jan de Beer, which unmistakably suggests the artistic community of Antwerp. In the ...