Crispin Van Den Broeck

Crispin van den Broeck ( 1523 - 1591 ) was a Flemish painter. He was born in Mechelen . He came from a family of artists, was probably trained by his father, and was the brother of Willem Van Den Broeck . He worked as a painter, draftsman and engraver. He was enlisted as a master in the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1555–6, where he became a citizen in 1559.

In Antwerp he was a collaborator of Frans Floris with whom he remained until the master’s death in 1570 . According to Karel Van Mander , Crispin van den Broeck and Frans Pourbus the elder completed an altarpiece for the Grand-Prior of Spain left incomplete at the time of Floris’s death. Van Mander also claimed that Crispin van den Broek was 'a good inventor . . . clever at large nudes and just as good an architect'. Crispin van den Broek died in Antwerp sometime between 1589 and February 6, 1591.

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