Adriaen van Overbeke (fl 1508 – after 1529),
• Adrian van Overbeck and Adriaen van Overbeke.
• Was a Flemish Renaissance painter.
• The artist has only recently been identified with the anonymous master who was given the notname 'Master of the Crucifixion of Antwerp' by Max Jakob Friedländer.
• He was registered as a master in the records of the Guild from 1508.
• He lived in a residence called "Schylt van Engelant" ('Shield of England') in the Keizerstraat in Antwerp.
• In 1513 he is documented working on a commission for a retable for the Propsteikirche St. Mariä Geburt ('Provost Church of the Birth of Saint Mary') in Kempen (North Rhine-Westphalia).
• In 1517 he undertook with the painter Peter de Vleeminck and the carpenter Jan van der Hese to complete for the Franciscans in Valenciennes an altar which the painter Jan van Delft had left unfinished at his death.
• In 1529 he bought gold leaf for three unknown retables from the goldsmith Willem van Schorisse in Bruges.
• In 1529 he agreed with the dealer Gheerarde van Sulps residing in Aachen to be his exclusive supplier in Aachen for a period of six years.
