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Master of the Berlin Sketchbook
( fl second quarter of the 16th century). Painter and draughtsman, active in the northern Netherlands and Germany. He takes his name from an unpublished sketchbook of 48 folios (Berlin, Kupferstichkab., 75C 2a/119), which can be dated c. 1523–6 on the basis of inscriptions and sketches recording two dated paintings by Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen. Jacob’s panels, the Virgin and Child (1526; Stuttgart, Staatsgal.) and the All Saints (1523; Kassel, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe), are copied with a degree of care that suggests that the artist of the sketchbook, presumably an assistant in Jacob’s Amsterdam studio, produced it as a means of preserving motifs and compositions by his master.
Part of the Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists family
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