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 last years van Dyck tried to obtain the commission to paint the Grande Gallerie of the Louvre without success. A list of history paintings produced by van Dyck in England survives, compiled by van Dyck's biographer Bellori, based on information from Sir Kenelm Digby. None of these works appear to remain, except the "Eros and Psyche" done for the King (below). But many other works, rather more religious than mythological, do survive, and though they are very fine, they do not reach the heights of Velázquez's history paintings. Earlier ones remain very much within the style of Rubens, although some