Jan Jansz Mostaert (c. 1475 – 1552/1553), 

 was a Dutch Renaissance painter who is known mainly for his religious subjects and portraits. One of his most famous creations was the Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America. He was appointed ‘painctre aux honneurs’ (painter with honors) by Margaret of Austria, the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands but did not become the court painter of Margaret.   Mostaert was commercially successful and owned multiple houses in Haarlem. Much of Mostaert's work was destroyed in the great fire of Haarlem in 1576, and some paintings once attributed to him are now attributed to Adriaen Isenbrant. (crop: The Expulsion of Hagar 1520-25)