The Life and Origins of Hernando de Esturmio Hernando de Esturmio was a painter of the Dutch Renaissance. His beginnings are traced to Zierikzee in the Netherlands, though the exact year he entered the world remains a matter of some debate, with records suggesting either 1510 or 1515. He left the Northern Low Countries behind when he arrived in Seville in 1537. He was twenty-two years old at the time of this move. He likely traveled s…