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COQUES (or Cocx), GONZALEZ (1614-1684)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 130 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COQUES (or Cocx), GONZALEZ (1614-1684)  , Flemish painter, son of Pieter Willemsen Cocx, a respectable Flemish See also:citizen, and not, as his name might imply, a Spaniard, was See also:born at See also:Antwerp . At the See also:age of twelve he entered the See also:house of Pieter, the son of " See also:Hell " See also:Breughel, an obscure portrait painter, and at the expiration of his See also:time as an apprentice became a journeyman in the workshop of See also:David Ryckaert the second, under whom he made accurate studies of still See also:life . At twenty-six he matriculated in the gild of St See also:Luke; he then married Ryckaert's daughter, and in 1653 joined the See also:literary and dramatic See also:club known as the " Retorijkerkamer." After having been made See also:president of his gild in 1665, and in 1671 painter in See also:ordinary to See also:Count See also:Monterey, See also:governor-See also:general of the See also:Low Countries, he married again in 1674, and died full of honours in his native See also:place . One of his canvases in the See also:gallery at the See also:Hague represents a See also:suite of rooms hung with pictures, in which the artist himself may be seen at a table with his wife and two See also:children, surrounded by masterpieces composed and signed by several contemporaries . See also:Partnership in See also:painting was See also:common amongst the small masters of the Antwerp school; and it has been truly said of See also:Coques that he employed See also:Jacob von Arthois for landscapes, Ghering and See also:van See also:Ehrenberg for architectural backgrounds, Steenwijck the younger for rooms, and Pieter Gysels for still life and See also:flowers; but the See also:model upon which Coques formed himself was Van Dyck, whose sparkling See also:touch and refined manner he imitated with See also:great success . He never ventured beyond the "See also:cabinet," but in this limited See also:field the See also:family See also:groups of his See also:middle time are full of life,brilliant from the sheen of costly See also:dress and sparkling See also:play of See also:light and shade, combined with finished See also:execution and enamelled See also:surface .

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