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Painter and engraver. He entered the service of Margaret of Austria in Mechelen in 1529, at a time of renewal of the Flemish tradition in contact with the Italian Renaissance. Highly appreciated at the Habsburg court, he served Charles V during 1535. Between 1546-47 he made the cartoons for tapestries woven for Mary of Hungary in Brussels by Willem de Pannemaker (1548-54, Royal Palace, Madrid). Hi
The son of Hendrick Bramer and Christynge Jans, nothing is known about his training. The first documented biographical fact is the journey he started through France and Italy in 1614. He resided in Arras and Amiens in 1614 and in Aix-en-Provence in 1616 on his way to Rome, where he lived between 1619 and 1627 (although not continuously). Cornelis de Bie states that he spent time in Venice, Florenc