Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerck van Veen or Maarten van Heemskerck (1498 - 1574), was one of the best known Dutch portrait and religious painters of the 16th century. He became famous for a series of coloured prints of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Marten van Heemskerck was born in the town of Heemskerck, near Haarlem ...