Jacob de Punder

Jacob de Punder or Jacques de Punder (1527 – c.1570), was a Flemish Renaissance painter mainly known for his portrait paintings.

Biography Jacob de Punder was born in Mechelen. The early Flemish biographer Karel van Mander states in the Schilder-boeck (1604) that de Punder was in Mechelen the pupil of the painter Marcus Willems (1527–1561). Willems had been a disciple of Michiel Coxie, one of the leading Romanist painters in Flanders who had helped introduce Italian Renaissance painting there. Willems married de Punder's sister Katharina.

De Punder married Barbara (Barbel) Verhulst. She was the sister of Lysbeth Verhulst, the first wife of the painter and engraver Hubert Goltzius. De Punder and Goltzius would occasionally collaborate on commissions.

De Punder was in 1559 the master of a certain Willem de Vos in Mechelen. He worked in Leipzig in 1570 before moving to Denmark, where he later died.

The Fries Museum holds a Portrait of Viglius of Aytta dated 1564 which is attributed to de Punder. It depicts the Dutch statesman and jurist Viglius as chancellor of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

A Portrait of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy by Jacob de Punder (referred to as 'Jaques Pindar') was in the collection of John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley according to the Lumley inventories. This painting is now untraced.