Jan van Scorel (1495-1562) Jan van Scorel was born in Schoorl, near Alkmaar. After attending Alkmaar's Latin school, he was apprenticed to painter Cornelis Willemsz of Haarlem. In 1512, he moved to Amsterdam to work at Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen’s studio. Van Scorel was one of the first Northern Netherlandish painters to visit Italy. In 1522, in Rome he entered the ser...