_Jan van Schorel_ (Dutch: 1495-1562).
Schorel, so called from his birthplace, belongs to the second
period of Dutch art, and was one of the most successful of the
"Italianisers"; but neither of these pictures is a good or
indeed a certain specimen. He was a poet and musician as well
as a painter, and studied under Albert Dürer at Nuremberg.
He afterwards visited Venice, whence he went to Jerusalem,
returning by Rhodes to Rome. In 1522 he was made by his
countryman, Pope Adrian VI., Keeper of the Art Collection of
the Vatican. He afterwards returned to Utrecht, where he died
a Canon of St. Mary's. He was the master of Anthony Mor.