Jacob Claesz van Utrecht, c. (1479-1525)

• Was a Flemish early Renaissance painter.
• He worked in Antwerp and Lübeck.
• He was also named by his signature Jacobus Traiectensis.
• He was probably born in Utrecht.
• It is assumed that he became a citizen of Antwerp around 1500.
• He is recorded as a "free master craftsman" of the Guild of St Luke there from 1506 to 1512.
• From 1519 to 1525 he is recorded as a member of the Leonardsbruderschaft ("Leonard's Brotherhood"), a religious confraternity of merchants in Lübeck among whose ranks the leaders of the Protestant Reformation in the 1530s could be found.
• From then on no traces of his life have been found.
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