Northern Renaissance artists

Northern Renaissance artists on Arts Calendar: 42 of them, with their dates, where they were born and died, and where their work is showing. Every artist, A to Z

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A

© Rijksmuseum CC0 1.0 (Public Domain Dedication) Pieter Aertsen 1508 to 1575 Dutch painter; market and kitchen scenes, The Butcher's Stall
© Philipp Kilian Public Domain Mark Albrecht Altdorfer 1480 to 1538 German Renaissance painter of the Danube School; The Battle of Alexander at Issus

B

© Hans Baldung Grien Public Domain Mark Hans Baldung 1484 to 1545 German Renaissance painter and printmaker; witches and Death and the Maiden
© Attributed to Jacques Le Boucq Public Domain Mark Hieronymus Bosch 1450 to 1516 Early Netherlandish painter; The Garden of Earthly Delights
© Unknown authorUnknown author Public Domain Mark Dieric Bouts 1415 to 1475 Early Netherlandish painter; the Last Supper altarpiece in Leuven

C

© Robert Campin Public Domain Mark Robert Campin 1378 to 1444 Early Netherlandish painter; the Mérode Altarpiece
© Petrus Christus Public Domain Mark Petrus Christus 1410 to 1475 Early Netherlandish painter; Portrait of a Young Girl
© Joos van Cleve Public Domain Mark Joos van Cleve 1485 to 1540 Antwerp painter; altarpieces and royal portraits
François Clouet 1510 to 1572 French Renaissance portraitist; A Lady in her Bath
© Attributed to Jacques Gauvain CC BY-SA 4.0 Jean Clouet 1485 to 1541 Court portraitist to Francis I of France

D

© Gerard David Public Domain Mark Gerard David 1460 to 1523 Early Netherlandish painter and illuminator; The Judgement of Cambyses
© Albrecht Dürer Public Domain Mark Albrecht Dürer 1471 to 1528 German Renaissance painter and printmaker; Melencolia I, Young Hare

E

© Hans Holbein the Elder Public Domain Mark Hans Holbein the Elder 1460 to 1524 German painter; altarpieces and silverpoint portrait drawings
© Lucas Cranach the Younger Public Domain Mark Lucas Cranach the Elder 1472 to 1553 German Renaissance painter; portraits of Martin Luther, Venus and Cupid
© Pieter Brueghel the Elder Public Domain Mark Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1525 to 1569 Flemish Renaissance painter; The Hunters in the Snow, peasant scenes
© Hans Eworth Public Domain Mark Hans Eworth 1520 to 1574 Flemish painter in Tudor London; portraits of Mary I
© Jan van Eyck Public Domain Mark Jan van Eyck 1390 to 1441 Early Netherlandish painter; The Arnolfini Portrait, the Ghent Altarpiece

F

© Jean Fouquet Public Domain Mark Jean Fouquet 1420 to 1481 French painter and illuminator; the Melun Diptych, the Hours of Étienne Chevalier

G

© Hugo van der Goes Public Domain Mark Hugo van der Goes 1440 to 1482 Early Netherlandish painter; the Portinari Altarpiece
© Jan Gossaert Public Domain Mark Jan Gossaert 1478 to 1532 Flemish Renaissance painter; The Adoration of the Kings
© Matthias Grünewald Public Domain Mark Matthias Grünewald 1470 to 1528 German Renaissance painter; the Isenheim Altarpiece

H

© Catarina van Hemessen Public Domain Mark Catharina van Hemessen Renaissance portrait painter; the first self-portrait at an easel
© Nicholas Hilliard Public Domain Mark Nicholas Hilliard 1547 to 1619 English miniaturist and goldsmith; portraits of Elizabeth I

L

© Lucas van Leyden Public Domain Mark Lucas van Leyden 1494 to 1533 Dutch painter and engraver; The Last Judgement
© Stefan Lochner Public Domain Mark Stefan Lochner 1410 to 1451 German painter; the Dombild altarpiece in Cologne Cathedral

M

© Johannes Wierix Public Domain Mark Quentin Matsys 1466 to 1530 Flemish painter; The Moneylender and his Wife, The Ugly Duchess
© Hans Memling CC BY-SA 3.0 Hans Memling 1430 to 1494 Early Netherlandish painter; the Donne Triptych, the Shrine of St Ursula
© Antonis Mor Public Domain Mark Antonis Mor 1517 to 1577 Netherlandish court portraitist; Mary I of England

O

© Isaac Oliver Public Domain Mark Isaac Oliver 1565 to 1617 English portrait miniaturist; A Young Man Seated under a Tree
© Bernard van Orley Public Domain Mark Bernard van Orley 1490 to 1541 Brussels painter and tapestry designer; the Haneton Triptych

P

Michael Pacher 1435 to 1498 Tyrolean painter and sculptor; the St Wolfgang Altarpiece
© Aegidius Sadeler / After Albrecht Dürer Public Domain Mark Joachim Patinir 1480 to 1524 Flemish painter; pioneer of the world landscape

Q

© Enguerrand Quarton CC BY-SA 4.0 Enguerrand Quarton 1410 to 1466 French painter; The Coronation of the Virgin

R

© Holger Uwe Schmitt CC BY-SA 4.0 Tilman Riemenschneider 1460 to 1531 German sculptor in limewood and stone; the Altar of the Holy Blood

S

© Hans Burgkmair the Elder Public Domain Mark Martin Schongauer 1450 to 1491 Engraver and painter; the Madonna of the Rose Bower
© Antonis Mor Public Domain Mark Jan van Scorel 1495 to 1562 Dutch Romanist painter; Mary Magdalene
Veit Stoss 1447 to 1533 German sculptor; the high altar of St Mary's Basilica, Kraków

W

© Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark Rogier van der Weyden 1399 to 1464 Early Netherlandish painter; The Descent from the Cross
© Konrad Witz Public Domain Mark Konrad Witz 1400 to 1446 German Swiss painter; The Miraculous Draught of Fishes

Y

© Hans Holbein the Younger Public Domain Mark Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 to 1543 German Renaissance painter; The Ambassadors, portraits of Henry VIII's court
© Wenceslaus Hollar Public Domain Mark Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger 1561 to 1636 Elizabethan and Jacobean portraitist; the Ditchley Portrait
© Anthony van Dyck Public Domain Mark Pieter Brueghel the Younger 1564 to 1638 Flemish painter; copies and variations of his father's peasant scenes