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Bartholomäus Bruyn (1493–1555), usually called Barthel Bruyn or Barthel Bruyn the Elder, was a German Renaissance painter active in Cologne. He painted altarpieces and portraits, and was Cologne's foremost portrait painter of his day.

Life

He was born in Wesel or Cologne.^[1] His early works suggest that he received his artistic training in the Lower Rhine.^[2] His earliest documented altarpiece is a Coronation of the Virgin (1515–1516) commissioned by Dr. Peter von Clapis, a professor at the University of Cologne.^[1] Bruyn’s altarpieces of the 1510s and 1520s are influenced by the style of Jan Joest, to whom Bruyn was related, and often emulate Joest’s habit of illuminating his figures from below.^[1]

By the time Bruyn painted the Essen altarpiece (1522–1525), he had combined Joest's influence w Biography - Web Gallery of Art MYTIX