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[[File:Alkmaar - Grote of Sint-Laurenskerk.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Grote or Sint-Laurenskerk (Alkmaar)]]]]
The '''Master of Alkmaar''' was a Dutch painter active around [[Alkmaar]] at the beginning of the sixteenth century.  Their name is derived from a series of panel paintings from the church of [[Saint Lawrence]] in that city, dated to 1504 and showing the Seven [[Works of Mercy]]; they are currently in the [[Rijksmuseum]] in [[Amsterdam]].

The paintings, bearing the stamp of [[Geertgen tot Sint Jans]], are done in bright colors, and their figures are drawn in an exaggeratedly caricatured manner. It has been proposed that this artist is identical to Cornelis Buys I, the brother of [[Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen]]; he is known to have been active in Alkmaar between 1490 and 1524. More recently, the name of [[Pieter Gerritsz]], originally of [[Haarlem]], has been proposed, he being in Alkmaar beginning in 1502.  This artist, in 1518, was compensated for a painting of [[Saint Bavo]] in Haarlem, and his name can be found in records of the [[Egmond Abbey]] and of the [[Grote or Sint-Laurenskerk (Alkmaar)|church of Saint Lawrence in Alkmaar]], over a period covering the years 1515 to 1529.

{{wide image|Werken van Barmhartigheid, Meester van Alkmaar (1504).jpg|800px|''[[The Seven Works of Mercy (Master of Alkmaar)|The Seven Works of Mercy]]'', by the Master of Alkmaar in 1504, for the St. Lawrence church in Alkmaar}}

==External links==
* [http://www.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=7 Literature on The Master of Alkmaar]

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[[Category:Painters from Alkmaar]]
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