KEMPENEER, PIETER DE

born 1503, Brussels, Burgundy [now in Belgium] died 1580 also called Pedro Campaa Flemish religious painter and designer of tapestries, chiefly active in Seville, Spain, where he was called Pedro Campaa. By 1537 he had settled in Seville and apparently remained there until shortly before 1563, when he was appointed director of the tapestry factory in Brussels. His most important works are in the Seville cathedralthe Descent from the Cross (1547) and the Purification of the Virgin, an altarpiece with portraits of the donor and his family (1555).