Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen as Dutch painter and designer of woodcuts (before 1470-1533).
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen was born at Oostzaan in 1472. His recorded nationality is Habsburg Netherlands.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as printmaker, painter and visual artist.
Among his best-known works are Saul and the Witch of Endor, Portrait of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen and The Crucifixion. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Habsburg Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen died in 1533, aged 61. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Saul and the Witch of Endor
- Notable work: Portrait of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
- Notable work: The Crucifixion
