Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

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Portrait of Mercurino Gattinara by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (c. 1530), on display at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels
Portrait of Mercurino Gattinara by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (c. 1530), on display at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels

Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (1500, Beverwijk – 1559, Brussels) was a Dutch Northern Renaissance painter.

Vermeyen was a painter and tapestry designer, probably a pupil of Jan Mabuse. About 1525 he became Court Painter to Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands at Mechelen and in 1535 he accompanied the Emperor Charles V to Tunis. This journey supplied him with scenes for later works, including tapestries designed 1545/48 for the Regent, Mary of Hungary.

Many portraits are ascribed to him on very little evidence, according to modern scholars.

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