Jan Mertens the Younger (ca.1470-died c. 1527)

• Jan Mertens the Younger was a South Netherlandish painter.
• He was born and died in Antwerp.
• His father was the sculptor Jan Mertens the Elder, whose family is thought to have originated in Tournai.
• Mertens the Younger was apprenticed to the painter Jan Gossaert in 1505.
• Became a master of the Antwerp painters' guild in 1509.
• He was the father-in-law of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, who married Mertens's daughter Anna.
• Mertens formed an important link in the artistic dynasties of Antwerp, for his second daughter married first Jan van Amstel, now usually identified with The Brunswick Monogrammist, and subsequently Gillis van Coninxloo.
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