Marten Pepijn

Marten Pepijn[1] (21 February 1575 – 1643) was a Flemish painter who was mainly known for his large-scale history paintings and to a lesser extent for his smaller genre scenes.

The 17th-century Flemish biographer Cornelis de Bie reported in his 1662 Het Gulden Cabinet that Pepijn visited Italy but there is no evidence of such trip.

[4] He married on 1 December 1601 with Marie Huybrechts (her death debt was paid between 1647 and 1648) with whom he had five children: Willem, Adriaan, Marten, Martha and Katharina.

This is demonstrated in the composition Saint Bernard and the Duke of Aquitaine (Musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes).

Some of these pictures bearing a monogram show a style, which is completely different from the large-scale, muscular religious works of Pepijn.

These works are believed to have been produced in a period when Pepijn had close contact with the leading Antwerp painter Frans Francken the Younger.