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GASPARD DE See also: born at See also: Antwerp, and learnt the See also: art of See also: painting from See also: Raphael See also: Coxcie
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He matriculated in the guild of St See also: Luke at Brussels in 1607, resided in the capital of See also: Brabant till after 166o, and finally settled at See also: Ghent
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Amongst the numerous pictures which he painted in Ghent, one in the See also: town museum represents the martyrdom of St Blaise, and bears the inscription A° 1668 aet
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86
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See also: Crayer was one of the most productive yet one of the most conscientious artists of the later
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Flemish school, second to See also: Rubens in vigour and below Vandyck in refinement, but nearly equalling both in most of the essentials of painting
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He was well known and always well treated by See also: Albert and Isabella, See also: governors of the See also: Netherlands
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The See also: cardinal-infant See also: Ferdinand made him a
See also: court-painter
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His pictures abound in the churches and museums of Brussels and Ghent; and there is scarcely a country See also: chapel in See also: Flanders or Brabant that cannot boast of one or more of his canvases
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But he was equally respected beyond his native country; and some important pictures of his composition are to be found as far See also: south as See also: Aix in See also: Provence and as far See also: east as See also: Amberg in the Upper See also: Palatinate
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His skill as a decorative artist is shown in the panels executed for a triumphal See also: arch at the entry of Cardinal Ferdinand into the Flemish capital, some of which are publicly exhibited in the museum of Ghent
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Crayer died at Ghent
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His best See also: works are the " Miraculous Draught of Fishes " in the gallery of Brussels, the " See also: Judgment of See also: Solomon " in the gallery of Ghent, and " Madonnas with See also: Saints " in the Louvre, the See also: Munich Pinakothek, and the Belvedere at Vienna
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His portrait by Vandyck was engraved by P
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Pontius
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