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Seventeenth Century (Flemish)
factory. In a short while its only rival was the Gobelins.
The King sent specially to Flanders for skilled work-
men and no less than fifty arrived in one month, among
whom were Josse Ampe of Bruges, Simon Heyns, Jacques
Hendricx, Josse Inghels, and Pierre Foquentin of
Oudenarde. Rubens and Van Dyck were commissioned
to supply cartoons; but many of the old favourite
historical and religious sets of the past century were
reproduced. Paris and Hampton Court Palace contain
a number of these.
Mortlake had closed when William III ordered his
victories to be commemorated in woven pictures. The
cartoons for The Battle of Bresgate, The Descent on Tor
bay and The Battle of the Boyne, were drawn by Jean
Lottin, the painter, and made by Clerck, Vander Borcht,
Cobus and De Vos of Brussels.
Flemish tapestry-weavers settled in Sandwich, Can-
terbury, Maidstone, Norwich and Colchester in 1567-8,
after the persecutions of the Duke of Alva; but
notwithstanding the good work produced in England,
Admiral Howard ordered the famous set of six pieces
to commemorate the destruction of the Spanish Armada
from the painter H. Cornelis de Vroom of Haarlem
and Franz Spierinx of Delft. These fine pieces hung in
the House of Lords, London, until destroyed by the
fire of 1824.
Religious, mythological and allegorical subjects con-
tinue in favour during the seventeenth century; and
subjects inspired by contemporary history are also
popular. The cartoons by Rubens, however, take •
precedence of everything ; and his History of Achilles,
157
factory. In a short while its only rival was the Gobelins.
The King sent specially to Flanders for skilled work-
men and no less than fifty arrived in one month, among
whom were Josse Ampe of Bruges, Simon Heyns, Jacques
Hendricx, Josse Inghels, and Pierre Foquentin of
Oudenarde. Rubens and Van Dyck were commissioned
to supply cartoons; but many of the old favourite
historical and religious sets of the past century were
reproduced. Paris and Hampton Court Palace contain
a number of these.
Mortlake had closed when William III ordered his
victories to be commemorated in woven pictures. The
cartoons for The Battle of Bresgate, The Descent on Tor
bay and The Battle of the Boyne, were drawn by Jean
Lottin, the painter, and made by Clerck, Vander Borcht,
Cobus and De Vos of Brussels.
Flemish tapestry-weavers settled in Sandwich, Can-
terbury, Maidstone, Norwich and Colchester in 1567-8,
after the persecutions of the Duke of Alva; but
notwithstanding the good work produced in England,
Admiral Howard ordered the famous set of six pieces
to commemorate the destruction of the Spanish Armada
from the painter H. Cornelis de Vroom of Haarlem
and Franz Spierinx of Delft. These fine pieces hung in
the House of Lords, London, until destroyed by the
fire of 1824.
Religious, mythological and allegorical subjects con-
tinue in favour during the seventeenth century; and
subjects inspired by contemporary history are also
popular. The cartoons by Rubens, however, take •
precedence of everything ; and his History of Achilles,
157