Matthys Cock or Matthijs Wellens de Cock (c. 1505 – 1548) was a

Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...

landscape painter and

draughtsman A draughtsman (British spelling) or draftsman (American spelling) may refer to: * An architectural drafter, who produced architectural drawings until the late 20th century * An artist who produces drawings that rival or surpass their other types ...

. He is known for his landscapes, marine art and architectural drawings.Matthijs Cock
at the

Netherlands Institute for Art History The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

Life

He was born into a family of painters: his father was the

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...

-born painter

Jan Wellens de Cock Jan Wellens de Cock (c. 1480 – 1527) was a Flemish painter and draftsman of the Northern Renaissance. Little is known about his life and career. He was probably born in Leiden in Holland but settled in Antwerp. In 1506 Jan is recorded in the a ...

(1490–1527), and his younger brother

Hieronymus Cock Hieronymus Cock, or Hieronymus Wellens de Cock (1518 – 3 October 1570) was a Flemish painter and etcher as well as a publisher and distributor of prints.

(1510–1570) became a famous engraver. Cock may have visited Italy. He took on pupils Willem van Santvoort,

Jacob Grimmer Jacob Grimmer (1526/26 – before May 1590) was a Flemish landscape painter and draughtsman. His rural scenes and landscapes of views around Antwerp marked an important development in 16th century Flemish landscape painting away from the world l ...

and Jan Keynooghe. A portrait of Cock was included in the 1572 collection of portraits of early Netherlandish painters entitled ''Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae inferioris effigies'' with a poem about his landscapes by

Dominicus Lampsonius Dominicus Lampsonius (Latinised form of Dominique Lampsone) (1532, in Bruges – 1599, in Liège) was a Flemish humanist, poet and painter. A secretary to various Prince-Bishops of Liège, he maintained an extensive correspondence with humanist ...

Work

Only one signed painting of a landscape by his hand is known. He is mainly known for his drawings of landscapes. His younger brother Hieronymus engraved 13 of his landscapes and published them in 1558 under the title 'Landscapes with Biblical and Mythological Scenes' (the longer Dutch title is: ‘'Various sorts of landscapes with fine histories composed therein, from the Old and New Testaments, and several merry Poems, very convenient for painters and other connoisseurs of the arts).Hans Devisscher and Timothy Riggs. "Cock."
Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 14 June 2014Larry Silver, 'Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market', University of Pennsylvania Press, 31 Jan 2012, p. 6
Original Latin and Dutch titles: Variae variarum regionum typographicae adumbrationes, in publicum pictorum usum a Hieronymo Cock delineatae, in aes incisae, et aeditae. Veelderleye ordinantien van lantschappen, met fyne historien daer in gheordineert, wt den ouden ende nieuwen testamente, ende sommighe lustighe poeteryen, seer bequaem voer Schilders, ende andere liefhebbers der consten : nu eerst nieu in de printe ghebracht, ende gemaect by Ieronumus Cock Schilder : men salse vinden The early biographer

Karel van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembe ...

stated in the

Schilder-boeck or is a book written by the Flemish writer and painter Karel van Mander first published in 1604 in Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, where van Mander resided. The book is written in 17th-century Dutch and its title is commonly translated into Engl ...

of 1604 that Cock was the first to bring the southern manner of landscape painting to the North. His landscapes show that he was aware of the work of

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...

and the Venetian draughtsman

Domenico Campagnola Domenico Campagnola (c. 1500–1564) was an Italian painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut of the Venetian Renaissance, but whose most influential works were his drawings of landscapes. Life and work Born probably in Venice, he ...

. He was the first to specialise in the depiction of villages and country retreats. Cock has been suggested as one of the likely draughtsmen of the ''Errara sketchbook'' in the collection of the

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (french: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, nl, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België) are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium. They include six museums: the Oldmasters Muse ...

but this attribution is not generally accepted.Meester van het Errera-Schetsboek
at the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cock, Matthys 1505 births 1548 deaths Flemish Renaissance painters Flemish landscape painters