Marinus van Reymerswaele
Marinus van Reymerswaele or Marinus van Reymerswale [lower-alpha 1] (c.1490 – c.1546) was a Dutch Renaissance painter mainly known for his genre scenes and religious compositions. After studying in Leuven and training and working as an artist in Antwerp, he returned later to work in his native Northern Netherlands.[1] He operated a large workshop which produced many versions of mainly four themes: the tax collectors, the money changer and his wife, the calling of Saint Matthew and St. Jerome in his study.[2]
Biography
Marinus van Reymerswaele was born in the city of Reimerswaal and he also derives his last name from this city. He was registered in February 1504 as a student at the University of Leuven. He was registered in 1509 in the Liggeren of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a pupil of Symon van Daele, a glass painter.[1]
He worked, at least from 1531 to 1540. In the latter year he moved to Goes, where he died around 1546.
Work
The artist is known for a small number of signed panels. A number of other paintings are attributed to Marinus on stylistic grounds. His works show the influence of the Antwerp painter Quentin Matsys.[2]
His oeuvre deals with of a relatively small numbers of themes, mostly adapted from Quentin Massys and Albrecht Dürer:
- The moneychanger and his wife
- Two tax collectors
- The lawyer’s office
- Saint Jerome in his study
- The calling of Matthew[2]
A large group of tax collectors are wrongly attributed to Marinus. His themes were popular in the sixteenth century and his paintings copied many times.
Signed works
- Antwerp, Royal Museum of Fine Arts
- Saint Jerome in his study (1541)
- Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
- The moneychanger and his wife (1541)
- El Escorial, Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial
- The moneychanger and his wife (1538)
- Florence, Bargello
- The moneychanger and his wife (1540)
- Kopenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst
- The moneychanger and his wife (1540)
- Madrid, Museo del Prado[3]
- The Virgin nursing the Child (1525-50)
- The moneychanger and his wife (1538)
- The moneychanger and his wife (1539)
- Saint Jerome in his study (1541)
- München, Alte Pinakothek
- The lawyer’s office (1542)
- The moneychanger and his wife (1538)
- New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art
- The lawyer’s office (1543)
Other work
- Douai, Musee de la Chartreuse
- Saint Jerome in his study
- Maastricht, Bonnefanten Museum
- Saint Jerome in his study (ca. 1541)
- Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
- Saint Jerome in his study
- The Unjust Steward
- Antwerpen, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten
- Two tax collectors
- London, National Gallery
- Two tax collectors (ca. 1540)
- Paris, Louvre
- Two tax collectors (ca. 1540)
- Saint Petersburg, Hermitage
- Two tax collectors
- Antwerp, The Phoebus Foundation
- Two tax collectors
- Naples, Palazzo Reale di Capodimonte
- "Two tax collectors"
- Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten
- The Calling of Matthew
- Private collection
- The Calling of Matthew (2x)
- Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza[4]
- The Calling of St. Matthew (ca. 1530)
- Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando[5]
- St. Jerome in his cell (ca. 1535)
Gallery
- The tax collectors (c. 1530-1535), Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
- The moneychanger and his wife (c. 1538), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
- Two tax collectors (c. 1540), National Gallery, London
- Saint Jerome in his study (1541), Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Notes
- Name variations: Marinus van Roymerswaele, Marinus Claesz. van Reymerswaele, Marinus Claesz. van Roymerswaele, Marino de Seeu, Marinus de Seeu, Marino de Seeuw, Marino de Siressea, Marino de Siressia, Marino de Sirissea, Marinus van Zeeuw
References
- Marinus van Reymerswale at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
- Adri Mackor, 'Marinus van Reymerswale: Painter, Lawyer and Iconoclast?', Oud Holland 109 (1995) pp. 191-200
- "Marinus van Reymerswale - Colección - Museo Nacional del Prado". www.museodelprado.es. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
- "The Calling of Saint Matthew". Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
- "Reymerswaele, Marinus van - San Jerónimo en su celda". Academia Colecciones (in Spanish). Real Academia de BBAA de San Fernando. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
External links
Media related to Marinus van Reymerswale at Wikimedia Commons