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

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