Frans Mostaert

Frans Mostaert (1528–1560) was a Flemish Renaissance painter specializing in landscape paintings.

Life

Frans Mostaert was born in Hulst. The early biographer Karel van Mander states in his early 1605 Schilder-boeck that Frans Mostaert was the son of a common painter, the twin brother of the painter Gillis Mostaert and the grandson of the painter Jan Mostaert. While his brother Gillis studied landscape painting with Jan Mandijn, Frans became a pupil of the landscape painter Herri met de Bles. It is therefore more likely that he became a master in the Guild earlier.

Frans Mostaert was the teacher of Jan Soens, Adriaen Rebbens and Bartholomeus Spranger.

All of Frans Mostaert's known works are landscapes. Although he did not study under Patinir, he can be regarded as a follower of Patinir in that he combined realistic and topographical aspects of the landscape with a heroic aspect as shown in the mountain ranges.