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Key [Keij], Adriaen (Thomasz.)
(b ?Antwerp, c. 1544; d ?Antwerp, after 1589). Flemish painter and woodcutter. The similarity of his name has sometimes led to the incorrect assumption that he was a nephew of Willem Key (see KEY, (1)). In most documents, he is called Adriaen Thomasz. alias Key, but Willem Key had no brother with the name of Thomas. He was perhaps a more distant relative, but in any case he was almost certainly Willem’s pupil, and he may even have borrowed his master’s name. The stylistic resemblances between the two are unmistakable: for example Adriaen’s Last Supper (1575; Antwerp, Kon. Mus. S. Kst.) is clearly derived from Willem’s version (c. 1560; Dordrecht, Stadhuis), and the younger Key’s portraits, particularly those of the 1570s, strongly resemble those of his presumed master. It is therefore unlikely that he can be identified with the ‘Adriaen Keyns’ who was enlisted at Antwerp in 1558 as a pupil of the glass painter Jan Hack III ( fl 1550–58).
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