Jan Jansz Mostaert (c. 1475 – 1552/1553)

• Was a Dutch Renaissance painter.
• Mostaert was born in Haarlem.
• He is known mainly for his religious subjects and portraits.
• From 1500 he began to be listed in the records of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke.
• He was appointed ‘painter with honors’ by Margaret of Austria, the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands.
• Mostaert was commercially successful and owned multiple houses in Haarlem.
• Much of Mostaert's work was destroyed in the great fire of Haarlem in 1576.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: The Expulsion of Hagar, 1520-25.
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Jan Jansz Mostaert, The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1520 - c. 1525

Original, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Visited in 2018.

Jan Jansz Mostaert, The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1520 - c. 1525

Jan Jansz Mostaert, Portrait of an African Man (Christophle le More?), c. 1525 - c. 1530

Original, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Visited in 2018.

Jan Jansz Mostaert, Portrait of an African Man (Christophle le More?), c. 1525 - c. 1530

Jan Jansz Mostaert, Portrait of an Unknown Woman, c. 1525

Original, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Visited in 2018.

Jan Jansz Mostaert, Portrait of an Unknown Woman, c. 1525

Jan Jansz Mostaert, The Expulsion of Hagar, 1520-25

Original, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Visited in 2018.

Jan Jansz Mostaert, The Expulsion of Hagar, 1520-25

Jan Jansz Mostaert, The Crucifixion, c. 1530

Original, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Visited in 2018.

Jan Jansz Mostaert, The Crucifixion, c. 1530

Jan Jansz Mostaert, Christ Shown to the People, 1510–15

Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2022.

Jan Jansz Mostaert, Christ Shown to the People, 1510–15

Jan Jansz Mostaert, Wing of a Diptych with the Souls of the Just and a Donor, c. 1520

Original, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Visited in 2018.

Jan Jansz Mostaert, Wing of a Diptych with the Souls of the Just and a Donor, c. 1520

Jan Mostaert, Portrait of Jan van Wassenaer (1483-1523), Viscount of Leiden, Governor of Friesland, about 1510-1525

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jan Mostaert, Portrait of Jan van Wassenaer (1483-1523), Viscount of Leiden, Governor of Friesland, about 1510-1525

Jan Jansz Mostaert, Portrait of Chevalier Abel van Coulster (1477-1548)

Original, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Visited in 2022.

Jan Jansz Mostaert, Portrait of Chevalier Abel van Coulster (1477-1548)

Jan Mostaert, Wings of an altarpiece Portrait of Albrecht Adriaensz. van Adrichen and Elisabeth van Dorp

Original, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Visited in 2022.

Jan Mostaert, Wings of an altarpiece Portrait of Albrecht Adriaensz. van Adrichen and Elisabeth van Dorp