Dirck Barendsz.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam, Rome and Venice. Works named in the authority record are Portrait of William I. Prince of Orange, called William the Silent, Meal of the Amsterdam militia and Meal of 14 militia guardsmen. Work by Dirck Barendsz. Is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Auckland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, Groeningemuseum and Royal Library of Belgium.

He was trained by his father, a painter known as Barend Dircksz, or deaf Barent, and in 1555, at the age of twenty-one, Barendsz travelled to Italy. During his seven-year stay there, Karel van Mander tells us that he was "nursed at the great Titian's bosem." He was a great friend of Philip Van Marnix, whom he met in Rome, and Dominicus Lampsonius, with whom he corresponded in Latin. He was a good musician and his most notable work, among various other pieces Van Mander describes that he painted in Amsterdam, was a Judith. Among pieces worthy of mention in Leiden that Van Mander liked was a Venus that at the time he was writing in 1604 was in the possession of Sybrandt Buyck (son of the last Catholic mayor of Amsterdam, Joost Sijbrantsz Buyck). Van Mander further lists several Tafels (altarpieces), including a "Christmas piece" in the possession of the Fraterhouse in Gouda, and a copy of a tronie by Titian, in the possession of Pieter Isaacsz (1569–1625), an Amsterdam painter and art dealer. The "Christmas piece" is still in Gouda and is the only complete surviving altarpiece by him. His chapel piece for the Amsterdam militia, called a Fall of Lucifer by Mander, was destroyed in the Beeldenstorm, but his militia portrait for the same group that hung in their meeting hall survived. He died in Amsterdam.