Matthys Cock or Matthijs Wellens de Cock (c. 1505—1548) was a Flemish

Flanders

Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...

 landscape painter and draughtsman

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

 of the Northern Renaissance

Northern Renaissance

The Northern Renaissance is the term used to describe the Renaissance in northern Europe, or more broadly in Europe outside Italy. Before 1450 Italian Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy. From the late 15th century the ideas spread around Europe...

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Biography

He was born to a family of painters; his father was the Leiden-born painter Jan Wellens de Cock

Jan Wellens de Cock

Jan Wellens de Cock was a Flemish painter and draftsman of the Northern Renaissance. He was probably born in Leiden in Holland but settled in Antwerpen....

 (1490-1527), and his younger brother Hieronymus Cock

Hieronymus Cock

Jérôme or Hieronymus Cock, or Wellens de Cock was a Flemish painter and etcher of the Northern Renaissance, as well as a publisher and distributor of prints.-Biography:...

 (1510-1570) became a famous engraver who engraved 12 of his landscapes. After becoming a master at his craft, Matthys took on pupils Willem van Santvoort, Jacob Grimmer

Jacob Grimmer

Jacob Grimmer was a Flemish Renaissance landscape painter.-Biography:Grimmer was born and died in Antwerp. According to Karel van Mander he first learned to paint landscapes from Matthys Cock and later from Christiaen Queburgh, both of Antwerp. He was a very skilled painter of houses, sky, and...

 and Jan Keynooghe.

According to Karel van Mander he was the first to bring the southern manner of landscape painting to the North and was mentioned with a poem about his landscapes by Dominicus Lampsonius

Dominicus Lampsonius

Dominicus Lampsonius , of Bruges and Liège, was a Flemish humanist, poet, and artist. Through his writings, a great deal is known about engravers and printers of the era...

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According to the RKD he is known as the draughtsman of the Errara sketchbook, in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

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External links

• Matthys Cock on Artnet
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