HEEMSKERK, MARTEN JACOBSZ Dutch painter, sometimes called Van Veen, was born at Heems kerk in Holland in 1498, and apprenticed by his father, a small farmer, to Cornelisz Willemsz, a painter at Haarlem. He worked under Jan Lucadz at Delft and under Jan Schoreel at Haarlem, where he formed what is known as his first manner, a quaint and gauche imitation of the florid style brought from Italy by Mabuse and others. He then made a tour of northern and central Italy, before going to Rome, where he spent some years. With Antonio da San Gallo, Battista Franco and Francesco Salviati, he was selected to decorate the triumphal arches erected at Rome in April 1536 in honour of Charles V. On his return to the Nether lands he settled at Haarlem, where he became (1540) president of his gild, and married twice. In 1572 he left Haarlem for Amster dam, where he died on Oct. 1, The works of Heemskerk are very numerous. The portrait of the artist's father in the metropolitan Museum of Art at New York, "Adam and Eve," and "St. Luke painting the Likeness of the Virgin and Child" in the gallery of Haarlem, and the "Ecce Homo" in the museum of Ghent, are characteristic works of the period preceding Heemskerk's visit to Italy. An altar-piece ex ecuted for St. Laurence of Alkmaar in 1538-41, and composed of at least a dozen large panels, now in the cathedral of Linkoping in Sweden, a "Crucifixion" executed for the Riches Claires at Ghent (now in the Ghent museum) in 1543, and the altar-piece of the Drapers Company at Haarlem, now in the gallery of The Hague, and finished in 1546, are representative of his style after his return from the south. Other notable works are in the galleries of Brussels, Brunswick, Cologne, Delft, Dresden, The Hague, Hampton Court, Haarlem, Petrograd, Prague, Rennes, Turin and Vienna. His self portrait is in the Fitz-William museum at Cam bridge.