Jan van Scorel

[3] Van Scorel was born in Schoorl, north of Alkmaar and close to Egmond Abbey.

[4] Van Scorel began traveling through Europe in his early twenties after visiting Utrecht.

After leaving Venice,[1] Van Scorel was in Rome from 1522 to 1524 and made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

He made the plans for building a polder in his native North Holland, called the Zijpe- en Hazepolder, that was later financed by his friend from Antwerp, the merchant Servaes de Haese.

[5] Perhaps because of the work on this polder, he is registered in Haarlem in 1528,[1] where he collaborated with Heemskerck and assisted with the school there that Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert would later run.

Considered to be the leading Netherlandish Romanist, Van Scorel moved to Ghent for painting contracts before returning to Utrecht for the same reason, where he died in 1562, leaving behind a wealth of portraits and altarpieces.

Coxie & van Scorel returned to Mechlan in 1539 and brought with them the influence of Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo.