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No documents have survived regarding the commission of the paintings, but on the basis of style and other circumstantial evidence, the panels were attributed to the Master of Alkmaar, who has been tentatively identified as Comelis Buys the Elder. Trained in the late fifteenth century in the city of Haarlem, Comelis Buys was active as an artist in Alkmaar in the years 1490-1524; in this period he also served as the first teacher ofJan van Scorel, who came from a small town outside of Alkmaar.^ The Seven Works ofMercy is securely dated 1504 on the basis of intemal evidence. Written on the framework above the central panel is the phrase, "Gheschildert Anno 1504" (painted in the year 1504). The same date, 1504, is inscribed in Roman numerals on the base of the column closest to the foreground in the second panel of the series illustrating the act of Giving Drink to the Thirsty.^ From 1504 until its entry into the collection of the Rijksmuseum in 1918, the panels presumably hung continuously in the church of St. Lawrence in the small town of Alkmaar, fifteen miles north of Amsterdam."^ During the night of 24 June 1582, the panels were covered with black

Cornelis Buys the Elder's <i>Seven Works of Mercy</i>: An Exemplar of Confraternal Art from Early Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe