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
Anthony van Dyck a "Van Dyke" was popular; Gainsborough's "The Blue Boy" is wearing such a "Van Dyke" outfit. In 1774 Derby porcelain advertised a figure, after a portrait by Johann Zoffany, of "the King in a Vandyck dress". A confusing number of different pigments used in painting have been called "Vandyke brown" (mostly in English-language sources). Some predate van Dyck, and it is not clear that he used any of them. Van Dyke brown is an early photographic printing process using the same colour. When van Dyck was knighted in 1632, he anglicized his name to Vandyke. The British Royal Collection, which