WEYDEN, Goswijn van der - b. ~1465 Brussel, d. ~1538 Antwerpen

Flemish painter, grandson of Rogier van der Weyden. He became a burgher of the town of Lier in 1497 and from 1499 executed various works for the abbey of Tongerloo. Around 1500 he settled in Antwerp, where he directed a flourishing workshop employing several apprentices. That year he also joined the Guild of St Luke, of which he was made Dean in 1514 and 1530. Several paintings are attributed to Goswijn: a cycle of eight panels (of which seven have survived) on the Life of St Dimpna (private collection), part of a large altarpiece executed c. 1505 for the abbey church of Tongerloo, the altarpiece of the Marriage of the Virgin (known as the ‘Colibrant Triptych’), painted c. 1515–17 for the church of Sint Gommarus in Lier, and a Virgin and Child with a Donor Couple (also known as the ‘Kalmthout Donation’ c. 1511–15).

Although his early works have some of the formal characteristics of Mannerism, Goswijn cannot be described as a representative of that movement. Rather, he should be seen as a painter of the Brussels school, somewhat limited in his horizons, but susceptible to the influence of contemporary artistic fashion.