Jan Woutersz van Cuyck
1540
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1572
Dutch painter executed in Dordrecht as a Mennonite martyr (1540-1572)
Jan Woutersz van Cuyck was a Dutch Renaissance painter from Dordrecht. He became famous as a Mennonite martyr of the Protestant Reformation who was executed in 1572. His heart-rending letters from prison were published in the Martyrs Mirror.
