Early Life, Family and Training Marcellus Coffermans grew up in a house where the smell of oil and wood was a constant. Born in Antwerp, he was likely born around 1524, though some records suggest a different timing. His father was a painter, a fact that placed the boy within the mechanics of the craft from his earliest years. This familial connection meant that the language of pigments and brushes was his first inheritance. By 1549,…