Marinus van Reymerswaele

[1] He operated a large workshop which produced many versions of mainly four themes: the tax collectors, the money changer and his wife, the calling of Saint Matthew and St. Jerome in his study.

He was registered in 1509 in the Liggeren of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a pupil of Symon van Daele, a glass painter.

His works show the influence of the Antwerp painter Quentin Matsys.

[2] His oeuvre deals with of a relatively small numbers of themes, mostly adapted from Quentin Massys and Albrecht Dürer: A large group of paintings of tax collectors are wrongly attributed to Marinus.

Madrid, the spanish capital concentrates the largest compendium of works by Marinus: the Prado Museum preserves four, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and the Monasterio de El Escorial (a permanent loan from the Prado) each own a piece.