Master of the Beighem Altarpiece

The Master of the Beighem Altarpiece is a little-known Flemish painter who was active in Brussels during the first third of the sixteenth century. Their art is Gothic, with classical influences.

Pilate shows Jesus to the People, one of 4 paintings stolen from Beigem in 1914

Their name comes from a series of four paintings that depicted the Flagellation of Jesus, Pontius Pilate shows Jesus to the people, the Crucifixion of Jesus, and the Resurrection of Jesus. These paintings were held in the church at Beigem, near Brussels, until September 13th, 1914 when they were stolen just before the church was set on fire by the Germans in World War I. They are currently only known from photos. In 2014 the city council of Grimbergen offered a reward of 400,000 euros for information regarding the paintings.^[1]

Other paintings ascribed to them include a depiction of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and a painting of Christ before Pilate in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.