Dutch Baroque Era Painter and Printmaker, 1621-1706  Related Paintings of MAN, Cornelis de :. | Queen Elisabeth Christine in Widows Weeds | Details of Madonna and Child Enthroned | View of the Province of Oparree Pare,Island of Otaheite,with Part of the Island of Eimeo Moorea | Portrait of Carl Axel Wachtmeister | Communication with the Infinite (mk09) |
Related Artists:
Thomas Blinks
British 1860-1912
HALS, Frans
Dutch painter (b. 1580, Antwerpen, d. 1666, Haarlem).
Jan van Hemessen
(c. 1500 - c. 1566) was a Flemish Northern Renaissance painter. He was born in Hemiksem, then called Hemessen or Heymissen. Following studies in Italy, in 1524 he settled in Antwerp. A mannerist, his images focused on human failings such as greed and vanity. Like his daughter, Catarina van Hemessen,he specialised in painted portraits. Jan Sanders van Hemessen was a Flemish Northern Renaissance painter who was part of the mannerist movement. He was born in Hemessen in the Netherlands but settled in Antwerp in 1524 after studying in Italy. Hemessen specialized in scenes of human character flaws such as vanity and greed. His pictures are often religious, while his style helped found the Flemish traditions of genre painting. Hemessen was also a portrait painter, which influenced his daughter to become a Flemish Northern Renaissance painter as well. The Surgeon of 1555 is an oil painting by Jan Sanders Van Hemessen currently in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. The scene likely represents a stonecutter at a fair. The surgeon, who is clearly happy that his operations have been successful, painstakingly moves his knife towards the stone, which is already visible. Behind him hang stones which have been successfully cut out of the head of other patients as a sign of his skill. Next to the quack stands a man who is wringing his hands in desperation, clearly going to be the next patient under the scalpel.