Marinus van Reymerswaele

Who was Marinus van Reymerswaele?

Marinus Claeszoon van Reymerswaele was a Dutch painter.

He received later the name of the city of Reimerswaal, Netherlands, where he was born and where he worked, at least from 1533-1540. In the latter year he moved to Goes, where he died around 1546. He is also named Marinus de Seeu. He studied at the University of Leuven and was trained as a painter in Antwerp. His name is known from a small number of signed panels. A number of other paintings are attributed to Marinus on stylistic grounds. His oeuvre consists of a relatively small numbers of themes only, mostly adapted from Quentin Massys and Albrecht Dürer:

The moneychanger and his wife

Two tax collectors

The lawyer’s office

Saint Jerome in his study

The calling of Matthew

A large group of tax collectors are wrongly attributed to Marinus. His themes were popular in the sixteenth century and his paintings copied many times.