Master of Alkmaar, active (1490-1510)

• Was a Dutch painter active around Alkmaar at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
• His name is derived from a series of panel paintings from the church of Saint Lawrence in that city, dated to 1504 and showing the Seven Works of Mercy; they are currently in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
• The paintings, bearing the stamp of Geertgen tot Sint Jans, are done in bright colors. 
• It has been proposed that this artist is identical to Cornelis Buys I, he is known to have been active in Alkmaar between 1490 and 1524.
• More recently, the name of Pieter Gerritsz, originally of Haarlem, has been proposed, he being in Alkmaar beginning in 1502.
• This artist, in 1518, was compensated for a painting of Saint Bavo in Haarlem, and his name can be found in records of the Egmond Abbey and of the church of Saint Lawrence in Alkmaar, over a period covering the years 1515 to 1529.
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