Frans van den Wyngaerde Frans van den Wyngaerde Frans van den Wyngaerde or Frans van den Wijngaerde (Antwerp, 8 July 1614 – Antwerp 17 March 1679) was a Flemish printmaker, draughtsman and publisher. One of the leading print publishers in 17th-century Antwerp, he created and published multiple reproductive prints after Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck as well as foreign artists. Frans van den Wyngaerde was born in 1614 to a family of fishmongers. He was baptized in Antwerp on July 8 of that year. Van den Wyngaerde became an apprentice of the Rubens collaborator Paulus Pontius (1603-1658) when he was about 14 years
Aganetha Dyck Aganetha Dyck Aganetha Dyck (born September 12, 1937) is a Canadian sculpture artist residing in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dyck is best known for her work with live honeybees, that build honeycomb on objects that she introduces to honeybee hives. In 2007 Dyck was awarded both Manitoba's Arts Award of Distinction and Canada's Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Dyck was born Aganetha Rempel, in 1937, to Mennonite parents in Marquette, Manitoba, a French-Canadian farming town 50 km north of Winnipeg. She married Peter Dyck, a Mennonite merchant from Winnipeg, in 1958. The family moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in