b.c. 1595, Utrecht, Netherlands. d.Feb. 21, 1624, Utrecht Dutch Dirck van Baburen Gallery  Related Paintings of Dirck van Baburen :. | Le Couronnement depines | Procuress | The Procuress | Descent from the cross or lamentation | The Lute player |
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Jackals Kalila and Dimna
the period of 1465-1535
Meulen, Steven van der
Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, active 1543-1568 Netherlandish painter active in England. He was a pupil of Willem van Cleve the younger (c. 1530-1564) in 1543 and was admitted to the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1552; by 1560 he had travelled to London, and he was naturalized in 1562. Van der Meulen brought with him a deep knowledge of the portrait style of Anthonis Mor. This sombre, shadowed style appealed to patrons at the English court who could not travel to Antwerp to sit to the greater artist. Early in 1561 an English merchant, John Dymoch, had visited Sweden in connection with negotiations for a marriage between Queen Elizabeth and Erik XIV, taking with him a Netherlandish painter described as 'Master Staffan', and it seems likely that this was van der Meulen. The King was much pleased with the resulting portrait of himself, for which he paid 100 daler
Richard Jack
1866-1952