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See also: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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He never ventured beyond the "See also:cabinet," but in this limited See also: |
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