Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Amsterdam? ca. 1470 - 1533 Selbstporträt des Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, Werkstattarbeit / Self-portrait of Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, workhop (ca. 1533) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Long accepted as the earliest known North-Netherlandish self-portrait, this is probably a copy after a lost work. Such portraits illustrate the increasing status of artists. Jacob, whose traditional nickname means ‘son of Cornelis from Oostsanen’, looks directly at us. Behind him is a paper with the date 1533 and his monogram, I W (inverted) v A (‘J[acob] W[ar] v[an] A[msterdam]’).