Jan Willems (painter)

Jan Willems (fl 1520 – 1547/1548) was a Flemish painter of religious works as well as a polychromer and a designer of large figures used in processions.

The artist was paid by the city for his assistance in the organisation of a passion play by the chamber of rhetoric of De Rozelieren.

[4] With the help of assistants, Willems created the figure of the giant Megera for its first appearance in the Ommegang of Leuven of 1532.

He received the commission to restore the painting of the Last Judgment by Dieric Bouts in the Leuven town hall.

Willems painted the blazons for the funeral of Ambrosius van Engelen, abbot of the Park Abbey, who died in 1543.

[5] His style is in line with that of Antwerp mannerists such as the Master of 1518 and Pieter Coecke van Aelst.