Adriaen van Cronenburg

Adriaen van Cronenburg (also Cronenburgh, Cronenburch) (Schagen, c. 1525 – Bergum, after 1604)[1] was a Northern Netherlandish painter.

He also spent some time in Belgium, especially in Leuven[1] and Antwerp, where he painted the portrait of Katheryn of Berain now in National Museum Cardiff.

The identity of Adriaen van Cronenburg was established by A. Wassenbergh, formerly the director of the Fries Museum, based on his unusual signature, A.a.a.a.

[2]Anna van Cronenburg (1552 – c. 1590) was a documented relation of Adriaen, the daughter of a doctor whose second husband became mayor of Leeuwarden in 1579.

[1] The Prado group are all three-quarter length standing portraits of ladies, two with daughters of perhaps ten years old.