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Pieter Jansz. Pourbus (1524-1584)

• Was a Flemish Renaissance painter, draftsman and engineer.
• He was active in Bruges during the 16th century.
• He is known primarily for his religious and portrait paintings.
• His first biography was written by contemporary artist biographer Karel van Mander in his renowned Schilder-boeck.
• Van Mander remembers him as "the painter of Bruges".
• The two met in 1580, when Van Mander fled the ravages of the Eighty Years' War and stayed in Bruges for a time.
• Pourbus must have overwhelmed Van Mander with information about all of the sights of Bruges at that time, as he was the source for most of the information Van Mander provides regarding the Bruges school of painting.
• Pourbus became a member of the Crossbowmen's Guild of St George.
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