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Barthel Bruyn the Elder
German painter
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For his son of the same name, see Barthel Bruyn the Younger.
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