Maarten van Heemskerck
Dutch painter (1498 - 1574 )
etching Marten Jacobszoon
Heemskerk van Veen or Maarten van Heemskerck (1498, Heemskerk - October 1, 1574,
Haarlem), was one of the leading Dutch portrait and religious painters of the sixteenth
century His family name was van Veen. He studied in Haarlem under Scorel and in Rome from
1532 to 1534. His Italianate paintings won him a high reputation in Haarlem, but his most
valuable work is contained in his sketchbooks (Berlin), which include drawings of ancient
monuments in Rome and sketches of the construction of St. Peter's. The Metropolitan Museum
has his portrait of his father.
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