Frans van den Wyngaerde old plates by well-established artists to which he added his name and then reissued. He published seven plates by Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), a Spanish artist working in Naples. 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
Anthony van Dyck same time the dominance of Rubens in the relatively small and declining city of Antwerp probably explains why, despite his periodic returns to the city, van Dyck spent most of his career abroad. In 1620, in Rubens's contract for the major commission for the ceiling of the Carolus Borromeuskerk, the Jesuit church at Antwerp (lost to fire in 1718), van Dyck is specified as one of the "discipelen" who was to execute the paintings to Rubens' designs. Unlike van Dyck, Rubens worked for most of the courts of Europe, but avoided exclusive attachment to any of them. In 1620, at