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Marinus Claeszoon van Reymerswaele (c.1490–c.1546) 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 (from Zeeland, a province of the Netherlands).

He studied at the University of Leuven (1504) and was trained as a painter in Antwerp (1509). His name is known from a small number of signed panels.

He was mistaken, however, because Swanenburg is mentioned as one of more than 20 students of Frans Floris in Van Mander's long list of pupils.

He was mistaken, however, because Swanenburg is mentioned as one of more than 20 students of Frans Floris in Van Mander's long list of pupils.

Moreover, although Marinus van Reymerswaele's name and biography might have been lost to history shortly after his lifetime, especially outside the.

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The Merchant and his Wife by Marinus van Reymerswaele.

One of the best known British war artist, many of whose paintings featured the Great War. His name is Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson.

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:

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.

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