The Miracle at the Grave of Elisha by Jan Nagel (d 1602)

Huis met de trappen -Pieter Biesboer onder de Blazoen geschilderd door Jan Nagel - Trouw moet Blycken

Jan Nagel (; c. 1560–1602) was a Dutch Renaissance painter.

Biography

Nagel was born in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

. Houbraken mentions him only as the teacher of

Claes Jacobsz van der Heck Claes Jacobsz van der Heck (Nicolaes Jacobsz van der Heck) (c.1575 in Alkmaar – 1652 in Alkmaar), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Claes Jacobsz van der Heck was the son of Jacob Dircksz (c. 1534-1608) and Adriana (died 1591) van der ...

.Jan Nagel Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

, courtesy of the

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According to Karel van Mander, who also mentions him on the last page of his

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as the teacher of Claes Jacobsz van der Heck, he was a follower of the Antwerp painter

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, as good as he was at landscape painting, but better at portraits, from either Haarlem or Alkmaar, who died at the Hague in 1602. He spelled his name Ian Nagel or Naghel.