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SCHOLARS AND IMITATORS.
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of this painter, whose name is registered among the pupils of
this transcendent school, he is only known to the connoisseur
by numerous spirited etchings, done from pictures (chiessy
sketches) by Rubens. He was a native of Antwerp, and born
about the year 1600.
Matthys (or Mathius) Vanden Berg. He was a disciple
of Rubens, but did not arrive at any distinction as an original
painter, having chiessy occupied himself in copying or imitating
his master’s works. He was born in 1615, and died in 1687.
David Teniers, called the Elder. Were it not that writers
have uniformly classed this artist among the scholars of Rubens,
the little similarity existing between their works would never
have occasioned such an opinion. He was born at Antwerp,
in 1582, and died in 1649.
Theodore BoEyermans. He was instructed in the art of
painting by Rubens, under whom he obtained some reputation
for his skill in drawing, and subsequently produced several
historical compositions, which were greatly admired; he pos-
sessed considerable dexterity in handling, and could with facility
adapt his pencil to painting figures, either of a large or small
size, by which means he became frequently useful in embellishing
the pictures of other artists with figures, particularly the land-
scapes by Genoels; architectural views, by Van Dalen; and
hunting-pieces by Fyt and P. de Vos. He does not appear
to have implicitly followed the manner of his tutor, his style
and colouring being much more like Van Dyck’s.
IMITATORS AND ANALOGOUS PAINTERS.
Francis Snyders, whose eminent talents as an animal
painter render him worthy to be enrolled as one of the most
valuable coadjutors of Rubens, was born at Antwerp, in 1575,
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of this painter, whose name is registered among the pupils of
this transcendent school, he is only known to the connoisseur
by numerous spirited etchings, done from pictures (chiessy
sketches) by Rubens. He was a native of Antwerp, and born
about the year 1600.
Matthys (or Mathius) Vanden Berg. He was a disciple
of Rubens, but did not arrive at any distinction as an original
painter, having chiessy occupied himself in copying or imitating
his master’s works. He was born in 1615, and died in 1687.
David Teniers, called the Elder. Were it not that writers
have uniformly classed this artist among the scholars of Rubens,
the little similarity existing between their works would never
have occasioned such an opinion. He was born at Antwerp,
in 1582, and died in 1649.
Theodore BoEyermans. He was instructed in the art of
painting by Rubens, under whom he obtained some reputation
for his skill in drawing, and subsequently produced several
historical compositions, which were greatly admired; he pos-
sessed considerable dexterity in handling, and could with facility
adapt his pencil to painting figures, either of a large or small
size, by which means he became frequently useful in embellishing
the pictures of other artists with figures, particularly the land-
scapes by Genoels; architectural views, by Van Dalen; and
hunting-pieces by Fyt and P. de Vos. He does not appear
to have implicitly followed the manner of his tutor, his style
and colouring being much more like Van Dyck’s.
IMITATORS AND ANALOGOUS PAINTERS.
Francis Snyders, whose eminent talents as an animal
painter render him worthy to be enrolled as one of the most
valuable coadjutors of Rubens, was born at Antwerp, in 1575,