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Jacob de Punder (ca. 1527-ca. 1572)

• Was a Flemish Renaissance painter.
• Jacob de Punder was born in Mechelen.
• The early Flemish biographer Karel van Mander states in the Schilder-boeck (1604) that de Punder was in Mechelen the pupil of the painter Marcus Willems.
• Willems married de Punder's sister Katharina.
• De Punder married Barbara Verhulst.
• She was the sister of Lysbeth Verhulst, the first wife of the painter and engraver Hubert Goltzius.
• De Punder was in 1559 the master of a certain Willem de Vos in Mechelen.
• He worked in Leipzig in 1570 before moving to Denmark, where he later died.
• Only three paintings are currently attributed to Jacob de Punder, all three portraits.
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