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Daniel Sabater y Salabert

Spanish artist, painter & sculptor; born 1888, died Valencia (1951).

Jan Sadeler

Flemish draughtsman, engraver and publisher who began work as a steel-chiseller or damascener but moved to Antwerp, where he was admitted to the Guild of St Luke in 1572 as a copperplate engraver; engraved illustrations after van den Broeck, Michiel Coxcie and Plantin; also collaborated with Marten de Vos; born Brussels (1550), died Venice (1600).
See Martin de Vos.

Cornelis I Saftleven [Sachtleven or Zachtleven]

Dutch artist specialising in genre scenes painted in the manner of Brouwer; also known for his paintings of cattle and of animals which were dressed as people and anthropomorphized; born Gorinchem (1607), died Rotterdam (1681).

Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani

Italian artist who played an important role in introducing the decorative art of the late Baroque to Florence; his works include frescos, altarpieces and other religious subjects; born Florence (1660), died Florence (1731).

Lorenzo Salimbene & Jacopo Salimbene

Italian painters of religious frescoes in which it is difficult to distinguish the hand of Jacopo from that of Lorenzo, who is considered by some critics to have been the master; Lorenzo was born San Severino, Marche (1374) died San Severino (1420); Jacopo was active in Urbino and San Severino (of which he was a councillor) between 1416 and 1420.

Cavaliere Tommaso (called Mao) Salini [Salinas or Solini]

Italian painter, an early Roman follower of Caravaggio against whom he subsequently gave hostile testimony during the 1603 judicial hearings of a lawsuit in which the artist Giovanni Baglione was suing Caravaggio for libel; born ca 1575, died ca 1625.

Bernard Salomon [known as "Le Petit Bernard"]

French woodcut designer; foremost designer for the publisher Jean de Tournes of Lyon; illustrator of religious and classical books, emblem books, travel books, born ca 1506-1520, died ca 1561-1570).

Humphry Salter (17th century), English

Hugues Sambin

French wood-carver, designer, architect and engineer; a maître-menuisier, his involvement in the construction of the château of Fontainebleau explains the strong Mannerist influence in all his work; born Gray (ca 1520), died Dijon (1601); son of the wood-carver Mammès Sambin.

Marco San Martino (17th century), Italian

Erhard Sanssdorffer

German artist; fl. 1546.

Francesco (di Giralomo) da Santacroce

Italian painter of religious subjects; born Venice (1516), died Venice 1584; son of the painter Girolamo da Santa Croce (1480/5-1556).

Girolamo da Santa Croce

Italian artist of religious subects who modelled himself on Giorgione and Titian; born Santa Croce near Bergamo (1480-1485), died Venice (1556); father of the painter Francesco da Santacroce (1516-1584).

Giovanni Santi [Sanzio]

Italian artist and poet; painter at the court of Federigo Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino; born Colbordolo, Pesaro (?1435), died 1494; father of Raphael (1483-1520).

Santi di Tito

Italian painter; born Sansepolcro, Arezzo (1536), died Florence (1603).

Dirck (Dircksz.) Santvoort [Zantvoort]

Dutch painter of society portraits and a few religious compositions; born Amsterdam (ca 1610), died Amsterdam (1680); son of the painter Dirck (Pietersz.) Bontepaert; brother of the landscape painter Pieter (Dircksz.) Santvoort (1603-1635).

Carlo Saraceni

Italian painter active in Venice, Rome and Mantua; greatly influenced by Caravaggio but with less dramatic and softer forms; best known for his jewel-like paintings of sacred and secular themes, which combine a delicate technique with a note of observed realism; also painted altarpieces and worked in fresco; born Venice (1579), died Venice (1620).

Andrea del Sarto [Agnolo, Andrea d’]

Italian painter and draughtsman; the leading painter in Florence in the early years of the 16th century who elaborated and perfected the classical style of the High Renaissance; his early work anticipated aspects of Mannerism, and his later works became important models for the more naturalistic Tuscan artists of the Counter-Reformation; he painted mainly religious works, including both altarpieces and major cycles of frescoes, and highly individualistic portraits, distinguished by a dreamily poetic quality; born Florence (1486), died Florence (1530).

Sassoferrato (Giovanni Battista Salvi), Italian

Italian painter, influenced by Domenichino and the Bolognese academicians; active in Umbria and Rome; born Sassoferrato (1605), died Florence or Rome (1685).

Pieter Joseph [Piat-Joseph] Sauvage

Flemish portraitist and decorative painter; born Tornai (1744), died ? Paris (1818).

Roeland Jacobsz. Savery

Flemish painter of landscapes and rural scenes; born Courtrai (1576), died Utrecht (1639).

Christofle de Savigny (16th century), French

Giovanni Giraolamo Savoldo (also called Girolamo da Brescia)

Italian painter painter of the Brescian school whose style is marked by a quiet lyricism; active in Brescia and Venice, and briefly in Florence and Treviso; exerted a major influence on the development of naturalistic painting in Italy, particularly on the young Caravaggio; born Brescia (ca 1480), died ?Venice (after 1548).

Cristoforo Scacco [Scaccho]

Italian artist; born Verona, active ca 1483-1512, died Naples.

Heidemarie Schäfer

German-born painter working in Siegburg; born 1953.

Godfried Schalken

Dutch tenebrist painter particularly admired for his mastery in reproducing the effect of candle-light; he visited London for a time, but his uncouth manner and bad temper alienated him from society there, and he returned to Holland and settled in The Hague where he continued to paint until his death in 1706; he was the subject of a story Schalken The Painter by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu; born Made (1643), died The Hague (1706).

Johann Ruldolf Schallenberg (1740-1806), Swiss

Edwin Scharff

German sculptor, painter, print maker and Professor of Fine Art in Berlin from 1923 to 1933 when he was deposed by the Nazis and a lot of his work was destroyed; he made many monumental public sculptures and was noted for his portraiture; born Neu-Ulm (1887), died Hamburg (1955).

Hans (Leonhard) Schäufelein [Schaeuffelein, Schaeuffelin, Scheiffelin, Scheyffeleyn], the elder

German painter and designer of woodcuts and stained glass; active in Albrecht Dürer’s workshop in Nuremberg and in Hans Holbein the elder’s workshop in Augsburg; his drawings and paintings interpret traditional themes in a popular and modest tone; born Nuremberg, Nördlingen or Augsbur (ca 1482), died ? Nördlingen (1539/40).

Bartolomeo Schedoni

Italian draughtsman and painter of the Mannerist school; known for his unrestrained use of primary colours and almost metallic-like effects; born Formigine, near Modena (1578), died Parma (1615).

Johann Eleazar Schenau (1737-1806), German

Daniel Schenk [Schenck, Shenk] (18th century), German (Bayreuth)

Member of a German family of sculptors and wood-carvers. The brothers (1) Hans Schenck and (2) Christoph Schenck were wood-carvers, working in the Lake Constance area from c. 1612. Their work, early Baroque in style, represented a departure from the Mannerist traditions of the region. Christoph’s son (3) Johann Christoph Schenck took over his father’s workshop and worked in a more soft and flowing style. Johann Christoph’s son (4) Christoph Daniel Schenck was a sculptor in wood and ivory, whose work combines both Mannerist and Late Gothic features.

Aegidius [Gillis] van Scheyndel

Dutch etcher; his work includes prints after such artists as Willem Buytewech, Esaias van de Velde, Dirck Hals, Pieter de Molijn and Jacques Callot, as well as prints from his own designs consisting of landscapes and figures from everyday life; born ? Haarlam (1622-1654), died before 1679.

Andrea Schiavone [called Andrea Meldolla, Andrija Medulic]

Dalmatian painter, draughtsman and etcher, active in Italy; responsible for the formation of Venetian Mannerism and influential on the late style of Titian; born Zara [now Zadar] (ca 1510), died Venice (1563).

Philipp Ernst Schindler, German

Johann Conrad Schlaun

German architect who dominated the Westphalian baroque style; he also designed gardens and town centres; amongst his masterpieces is the garden developed for Count Ferdinand von Plettenberg, known as the "Westphalian Versailles"; born 1695, died 1773.

Franz-Xaver Schmädl

German (Bavarian) Rococo sculptor whose numerous works in wood have an independent, popular character; born Oberstdorf im Allgäu (1705) died Weilheim (1777).

Matthias Schmid

Swiss (Tirolean) painter of folkloric scenes from Tirolean life and portraits; born See, Paznaun Valley (1835), died Munich (1923).

Franz Xaver Schmidt (1705-1777), German.

(Jean) Victor Schnetz

French painter and printmaker; works include history and religious subjects, and genre pieces; the paintings had an underlying coolness which reflects his neo-classical training under David, and their main importance lies in the bridging of the two schools of Romanticism and Neo-classicism; born Versailles (1787), died Paris (1870).

Jenny Schneider (contemporary), USAmerican

Erhard Schoen (op. 1491-1542), German

Martin Schongauer

German engraver and painter; a famous artist in his day who concentrated on religious subjects to which he brought a new richnesss and maturity and gracefulness which gave rise to the nicknames 'Hübsch (charming) Martin' and 'Schön (beautiful) Martin'; born ca 1445, died 1491.

Florens [Florent] van Schoonhoven [Florentius Schoonhovius]

Dutch writer of emblem books; born Gouda (1594), died 1649.

Abraham van der Schoor

Netherlandish painter of figure works and still-lifes, active in Amsterdam (1643-1650).

Jakob Ferdinand Schreiber (1871-1902), German

Christian Georg Schütz (op. 1732-1739) and Januaris Zick (1745-1797), German

Siegfried Schümann (b. 1923-), German

Christoph Theodor Schüz (1830-1900), German (Düsseldorf)

Johann Christian Schwalbe (op. 1759), German

Wilhelm Schweizer

German maker of pewter figurines in Diessen, Southern Bavaria; a family business since 1796. See website.

Gerard Jean-Baptiste Scotin [Gerard Scotin II]

French engraver of works by Jean Antoine Watteau and William Hogarth, amongst others.

Painter of the Second Supplement, Manessiche Liederhandschrift, Ötenbach near Zurich (14th century), Swiss

Sebastiano del Piombo = Sebastiano Luciani

Paulus Seeger (18th century), German

Johann Konrad Seekatz (1719-1768), German

Giovanni Segantini

Italian art nouveau artist, recognised in his own lifetime as an innovator and prophet and as an important symbolist painter; whilst his early works reflect traditional style of painting in Lombardy, the beautiful mountain scenery of his childhood provide was the chief inspiration for his later work; the technique of Divisionism – fine parallel brush strokes of pure colour – was his definitive contribution to avant garde art at the time – and the secret of the brilliant luminosity in his paintings; born Arco, Lake Garda (1858), died Pontesina (1899).

Gerard [Gerhard] (Crayer) Seghers [Zegers]

Flemish painter, dealer and collector, active also in Italy and Spain; born Antwerp (1591), died Antwerp (1651).

Alison Seiffer

Contemporary North American magazine and book illustrator who lives and works in Montauk, New York; her work has appeared in The New York Times and Fast Company.

Jakob Seisenegger

Austrian painter active in Bavaria; primarily a portraitist, he began work as an illuminator; born Austria (1505), died Linz (1567).

Vincent Sellaer [Zeelare or Zellaer or Geldersman]

Flemish painter who specialized in half-length figures of women, such as Cleopatra, Suzanna, Leda and Judith; active Mechelen (ca 1538), died 1544. Contemporary inventories confirm the identification of Geldersman with Sellaer. It is probable that two, possibly three, generations of painters bore the name.

Pere (Pedro) Serra (ca 1357-1409), Spanish

Spanish artist who worked with his brother Jaime (fl. 1361-1395) in Gerona, Saragossa, Manresa and Barcelona, and maintained a large and famous workshop. The brothers were important for their projection of the Italo-Gothic style in their own work and for the wide influence they exerted through their many followers; born ca 1357, died Gerona (1409).

Christian Seybold

German artist; a self-taught portrait painter, initially in the baroque formal style; later he turned to a more intimate style of representation, mainly in simple half-length or head-and-shoulders portraits, such as that depicted noted here; born Mainz (1690/1697), died Vienna (1768).

Charles [Hazelwood [Haselwood]) Shannon (1865-?), British

English painter, lithographer and woodcut illustrator who drew his greatest inspiration from the Old Masters, working with religious and classical subject-matter; his portraits and lithographs are amongst his finest and most sensitive work; born Quarrington, nr Sleaford, Lincs, (1863), died Kew, Surrey (1937).

Luca d'Egidio di Ventura de' Signorelli (also called Luca da Cortona)

Italian painter, best known for his nudes and for his novel compositional devices; active in Cortona, Loreto, Monte Oliveto, Sienna, Orvieto, Florence, Rome; born Cortona (1445/50), died Cortona (1523).

Grant Silverstein (contemporary), USA

Pennsylvannia printmaker who draws heavily from mythological themes, and is a master of the intaglio etching technique; born 1953

Israel Silvestre [Sylvestre] the Younger

French engraver, etcher and print dealer; appointed dessinateur et graveur du Roi in 1662; born Nancy (1621), died Paris (1691).

Louis de Silvestre

French painter of classical, religious and historical subjects; born Sceaux or Paris (1675), died Paris (1760); son of engraver and draughtsman Israël Silvestre.

Charles Simmoneau (1645-1728), French

Henry Singleton

English painter and illustrator of books and periodicals; noted for his paintings inspired by the Bible and from literary sources, for his depictions of contemporary historical events, and for his portraits; many of his works were engraved in mezzotint and achieved a widespread popularity; his later works are inclined to be sentimental and were often intended solely for engraving; born London (1766), died London (1839); nephew of miniature painter William Singleton (d. 1793).

Elisabetta Sirani

Italian artist who painted a wide range of subjects-portraits, allegories, religious themes; she painted so fast that it was commonly believed that she had help painting them and in order to refute the charges dignitaries from all over Europe were invited to watch her paint a portrait in one sitting; also important as a teacher, she set up a painting school for women; born 1638, died 1665; daughter of Giovanni Andrea Sirani (1610-1670), Guido Reni’s principal assistant.

Pieter Cornelisz Slingelandt [Slingherlandt, Slingherland Slingerhlant, etc.] (1640-1681), Dutch

Smartistic (2005), Netherlands

Rotterdam-based company marketting artworks via the Internet. They seem to have disappeared from view (2009).

Allie R. Smith, fl. 2009 (USA)

John Smith

English mezzotint engraver and printseller; as well as plates for public sale, he undertook private commissions and retouched existing plates by other engravers; born Northampton (? after 1654), died London (1742/3).

Marion Smith (20th century)

Contemporary English sculptor who has shown throughout the years at the Royal Academy and in London's West End. In 1979, the International Year of the Child, she conceived the idea of a group of bronzes for gardens or terraces – summertime children with a touch of the pastoral about them. She has recently turned her talents to a series of smaller and strikingly powerful works of horses.

Edward Robert Smythe

English artist, one of the foremost painters of the Suffolk School; after early aspirations of a military life he became an artist, and worked in Ipswich alongside artists such as Robert Burrows, and his brother Thomas (1825-1906); born 1810, died 1899.

Andrea Solario [Solari]

Italian painter of biblical subjects and fresoed portraits; born Milan (ca 1465), died Milan (1524); brother of sculptor Cristoforo Solari (1468/70-1524).

Niklaus Solis

German printmaker whose subjects included religious, mythological, military and historical scenes as well as portraits; born Nuremberg (c. 1544), died Augsburg (1585); son of Virgil Solis (1514-1562).

Virgil Solis

German designer, draftsman, and printmaker; one of Nuremberg's most prolific printmakers and book illustrators with over 2,000 works to his credit including popular, commercially successful prints on many subjects; he regularly borrowed figures and compositions from German and Italian masters; also disseminated contemporary ornamental forms to artisans, who often used his prints as models for furniture decoration, architectural friezes, pitchers, bowls, sword scabbards, and jewelry; born Nuremberg (1514), died Nuremberg (1562); father of Niklaus Solis (c. 1544-1585).

Johannes van Somer, engraver – see David II Teniers (1610-1690)

Joris van Son

Flemish artist whose paintings of still-lifes and meals almost always contained the fruit in which he specialised; he also painted still-lifes with garlands of fruit and flowers surrounding cartouches, which sometimes have figure motifs by Erasmus Quellinus II; born Antwerp (1623), died Antwerp 1667).

Hendrick (Maartensz.) Sorgh [Sorch, Sorg, Zorg or Zorg; called Rokes]

Dutch painter of genre scenes who held the official post of market barge captain for the Rotterdam–Dordrecht line from 1638 until his death. born Rotterdam (1609 or 1611), died Rotterdam (1670). His father, Maerten Claesz. Rochusse (or Rokes), a market bargeman, was nicknamed 'de Sorch' (Dut.: 'careful') after his manner of handling cargo.

Lydia Sorio

Italian painter active in Verona; contemporary.

Lionello Spada

Italian draughtsman and painter specializing in ornamental friezes and quadratura, but also executing altarpieces; born Bologna (1576), died Parma (1622).

Marius Spanke (1971-), German

Giovanni Speranza [called Vaienti] (ca 1470 - ca 1532), Italian

Carl Spitzweg

German painter who is recognized as the most representative of the Biedermeier (early Victorian) artists in Germany; born Munich (1808), died Munich (1885),

Bartholomaeus Spranger [or Spraneers] (1546-1611), Netherlandish

See engraving by Jacques Matham.

Pieter Spyckermann (op. 1650-1666), Netherlands

Francesco Squarcione

Italian (Paduan) tailor-turned draughtsman, printmaker and painter who trained able students, amongst them Mantegna (1430/1-1506), in a school which was possibly the earliest private establishment devoted to teaching painting and distinct from the workshop system of instruction through apprenticeships; his own style demonstrates a romantic, excitable attitude to the antique and an expressive use of line; born Padua 1395, died Padua 1468.

Casper Stadler (18th century), German

Jan (Havicksz.) Steen

Dutch painter, especially noted for genre and interior scenes and religious subjects; active Leiden, the Hague, Haarlem; born Leiden (1626), died Leiden (1670).

Harmen [Herman] (Everitsz.) van Steenwyck [Steenwijck]

Dutch artist, leading exponent of the vanitas still-lfe, a speciality of Leiden; born 1612, died 1656; elder brother of Pieter van Steenwyck (ca 1615-after 1654).

Hendrick van Steenwyck [Steenwijk], the Younger

Dutch painter active in Antwerp (where he collaborated with Frans Francken I, Jan Breugal I and others), London (where he painted architectural backgrounds for Anthony van Dyck, Daniel Mitjens I and others), and Leiden; known for his church interiors and architectural fantasies; born ? Antwerp (ca 1580), died Leiden (1649); son of Hendrick van Steenwyck, the Elder (ca 1550-1603); husband of Susanna van Steenwyck (?1580s - ?1653), also a painter.

Pieter (Everitsz.) van Steenwyck [Steenwijck]

Dutch painter; exponent of the vanitas still-lfe, a speciality of Leiden; born Delft (ca 1615, died after 1654); younger brother of Harmen van Steenwyck (1612 - ca 1656).

Stefano Veneziano [or Stefano Paviano di Sant' Agnese, or Stefano 'Plebanus' di Sant' Agnese] (op. 1369-1385), Italian

Melchior Michael Steidl

Austrian painter, active in Germany; his altarpieces and fresoes can be found throughout southern Germany, the latter typically employ the illusionistic system of total ceiling decoration, combining figures and painted architecture; born Innsbruck (1687), died Munich (1727).

Johann Christoph Steudner (1677-1713) – see Paul Decker (1677-1722)

Tobias Stimmer

Swiss draughtsman, painter and wood-engraver, active in Schaffhausen; his subjects included biblical and natural history themes, portraits, designs for bannerets and book illustrations; born Schaffhausen (1539), died Srassbourg (1584).

William Stocking (18th century), English (Bristol)

Johann Adam Stockmann (1720-1783), German

Constance Stokes

Australian artist; a leading figure in the modernist art movement, her paintings include still-life, group-figure studies, and the open line drawings of nudes for which she is best known; born 1906, died 1991.

Matthias Stom (or Stommer)

Dutch genre painter, active in Italy; born Amersfoort, near Utrecht (ca 1600), died ? Sicily or northern Italy (after ? 1652).

Daniel Stoppe (1697-1747)

Possibly the Silesian occasional poet of this name, some of whose works provided texts set by Telemann.

Lorenz Stör [Stoer]

German draughtsman few of whose works are known to have survived; among them are a handful of drawings and a book of geometric designs for woodcuts illustrating ruined buildings rendered illusionistically in perspective; born ? Nuremberg (ca 1530), died Augsburg (after 1621).

Johann Christophorus Storer

German painter, draughtsman and etcher; mainly a church painter who studied and worked in Italy and Spain; his drawings are characterized by light strokes and the sudden introduction of diagonal hatching, isolated patches of shading; born Konstanz (?1620), died Konstanz (1671); son of artist Bartholomäus Storer (ca 1580/90 - 1634/5).

Sebastien [Sébastien] Stoskopff [Stoskopf]

French (Alsatian) painter who devoted himself to still-lifes; born Strasbourg 1597, died Idstein 1657.

Thomas Stothard

English neo-classical painter, engraver, decorator and designer; his works were prolific and include historical subjects, plates for books, tickets for concerts, illustrations to almanacs, portraits of popular actors; born London (1755), died 1834.

Joannes [Johannes] Stradanus [Jan van (der) Straet, Jan van der Straeten, Giovanni (della) Stradano; Giovanni Stratensis] (1523-1605)

Flemish draughtman, painter and printmaker who spent most of his life in Italy; his work includes tapestry cartoons, frescos altarpieces and engravings; initially influenced by Antwerp Mannerism, his art evolved to combine a figure style shaped by Vasari and Jacopo Tintoretto with Northern European interest in naturalistic and topographical details; born Burges (1523), died ? Florence (1605).

Theophanes Strelitzas [Theophanes the Cretan, Theophanes Bathas]

A leading icon painter of the Cretan school in the first half of the sixteenth century, and in particular the most important figure in Greek wall-painting of the period; he also painted panel icons and small portable works; born Heraklion (date unknown), died Crete (1599). All his work was done in mainland Greece.

Bernardo Strozzi [il Cappuccino; il Prete Genovese]

Italian Capuchin priest and painter; as an artist he was renowned for his portraits, religious works and genre scenes; his style art is distinguished by rich and glowing colour and broad, energetic brushstrokes; born Genoa (1581), died Venice (1644).

John Melhuish Strudwick

British Pre-Raphaelite painter; a student of Burne-Jones and one of his most accomplished followers, Strudwick painted legendary and symbolic scenes, many including musical themes; his meticulous technique ensured that his output was small, just some 20 paintings; born London (1849), died 1935.

Pierre Subleyras

French artist active in Italy and Romania; his oeuvre comprises portraits, religious and mythological subjects and genre pictures including illustrations of Fontaine and Boccaccio; born Saint Gilles du Gard (1699), died Rome (1749).

Eustache Le Sueur

French artist whose paintings were admired for combining tender sentiments with the severe classicisms of Poussin and Raphael; born Paris (1616/1617), died 1655.

Joseph Sunyer (17-18th century), Spanish

Surrey Sculptures

Melbourne (Australia) based producer of gargoyles, finials, chimney pots, and roof art. Web page.

John Surtees

British painter who started life as a locomative engineer but became a member of the colony of painters in the then picturesque English fishing village of Cullercoats (Northumberland); born 1817 or 1818, died 1915.

Lambert Sustris [Lambert of Amsterdam]

Italian born painter and frescoist who trained in Amsterdam but spent most of his life in Italy; he probably worked in Titian's workshop, where he may have specialized in landscapes; later he produced portraits and classical scenes in his own right; born 1510-1515, died after 1560

Joseph-Benoît Suvée

French-Belgian painter; strongly influenced by French neo-classicism, he emulated and competed with Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), earning his enduring hatred; became Director of the French Academy in Rome; born Brugge (1743), died Rome (1807).

Herman van Swanevelt [Herman d’Italie, Monsieur Herman]

Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher, active in France and Italy; known for his many landscapes with biblical and mythological subjects in which a large tree extending beyond the frame or a distant view bathed in hazy sunshine give a monumental touch to the composition; born ? Woerden (ca 1620), died Paris (1655).

Jan Swart van Groningen (1490/1500-1553/8), Dutch

Netherlandish painter, book illustrator and designer of stained-glass windows; his work has an archaic air and he had a fondness for showing people in high hats, turbans and other odd headgear; born Groningen (1490/1500), died 1553/8.

Jan Gerritsz. Sweelinck

Dutch copperplate engraver; born Amsterdam (?1601), died Amsterdam (1645).

Michiel Sweerts

Flemish painter, an enigmatic artist who painted exeedingly attractive genre scenes which display a quiet, melancholy dignity and exquisite silvery tonality, also portraits towards the end of his life; born Brussels (1624), died Goa, India (1664).

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