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GASPARD DE See also:CRAYER (1582-1669)
, Flemish painter, was 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 See also:Brussels in 1607, resided in the See also: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 See also:Isabella, See also:governors of the See also:Netherlands
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The See also:cardinal-See also:infant See also: His best See also:works are the " Miraculous See also:Draught of Fishes " in the See also: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 See also:Belvedere at See also:Vienna . His portrait by Vandyck was engraved by P . Pontius . |
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