Master of Hoogstraeten (c. 1475 – c. 1530)

• Was a Flemish painter.

• The Master of Hoogstraeten is the Notname given to a painter or a collective of painters active in Antwerp.

• The master created principally religious paintings and is considered a member of the Antwerp Mannerists.
• The identity of the Master is not known, although attempts have been made to link him with Passchier van der Mersch.

• Because of a clear Dutch influence on his work, it has also been surmised that the Master was in fact originally from the Northern Netherlands.

• The notname Master of Hoogstraeten was coined by the historian of Early Netherlandish art Max Jakob Friedländer after a set of seven panels each depicting one of the Sorrows of the Virgin that originally hung in the church of Saint Catharina in the town of Hoogstraten (now in the Antwerp province of Belgium).

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