Maerten de Vos (1532–1603)

• Maerten de Vos was a Flemish painter.
• He was born in Antwerp as the youngest of the four children of Peter de Vos and Anna de Heere.
• Maerten and his brother, also called Pieter, first trained with their father.
• De Vos travelled to Italy where he resided between 1550 and 1558.
• The 17th-century Italian artist biographer Carlo Ridolfi wrote that de Vos worked in the studio of Tintoretto in Venice.
• Upon his return to Antwerp in 1558 de Vos became a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.
• He married Joanna le Boucq.
• The couple had five daughters and three sons.
• De Vos was lucky to obtain in 1564 commissions from the rich Antwerp merchant Gillis Hooftman.
• De Vos was deacon of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1572–1573.
• Maerten de Vos had 11 pupils: Balten Vlierden, Wenzel Coebergher, Hans Snyers, Merten Boly, Jaeckes Keerel, Jan Adriansen Cnottaert, Peeter Goutsteen, Hans Cnottaert, Hans van Alten, Hans de La Torte and Abraham van Lievendale.
• His two sons Daniel de Vos and Maerten de Vos the Younger became painters.
• He died in Antwerp on 4 December 1603.
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