Workshop of Hieronymus Bosch

This entry is not a person. It is the label the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston uses for panels made in Hieronymus Bosch's workshop in 's-Hertogenbosch by assistants whose names are lost.

That such assistants existed is on record. Bosch came from a family of painters, the van Akens, and after his marriage he worked from a house of his own on the north side of the town's market square. Records from 1503 and 1504 mention several of Jheronimus knechten, Jheronimus's men, the journeymen in his employ. None of them is named.

In Boston the label goes on the wings and predella of an altarpiece made for a family of 's-Hertogenbosch around 1500. The centre panel that belonged with them, an Ecce Homo the museum bought in 1953 under the same label, repeats Pilate's palace and the jeering crowd of Bosch's own early Ecce Homo, now in Frankfurt. The museum reads its overly careful brushwork as the work of assistants following the master's model.