Life

He was born in Antwerp as the youngest of the four children of Peter (Pieter or Peerke) de Vos, (born in Leiden in 1490), and Anna de Heere. His father was recorded in the registers of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1507 as a pupil studying painting under Jeroom Scuelens and in 1519 as a free master. Maerten's mother was a daughter of the Antwerp painter Marten (Maerten) de Heere who was registered in 1498 as a free master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.