Dirck Jacobsz (1496–1567)

• Was a Dutch Renaissance painter.
• His exact birthplace is unknown, but it was somewhere near Amsterdam.
• Born into a family of painters, he was first trained by his father, Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen.
• Jacobsz was influenced by the Mannerist style of fellow Amsterdam painter Jan van Scorel.
• He married Marritgen Gerritsdr. in 1550, and they had two children, Maria Dircksdr. and Jacob Dircksz.
• Jacob later became a painter as well.
• Не painted two earlier group portraits of civic guards, which hang in the State Hermitage in Saint-Petersburg. 
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