This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...into the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp. In 1600 he was working at Brussels for the Archduke Albert. Thence he went to Mantua, where he became Court painter. In 1609 he accompanied Eleanor of Mantua to Paris, and being appointed painter to her sister Queen Mary de' Medici, settled in Paris, where he died in 1622. Berlin. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...into the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp. In 1600 he was working at Brussels for the Archduke Albert. Thence he went to Mantua, where he became Court painter. In 1609 he accompanied Eleanor of Mantua to Paris, and being appointed painter to her sister Queen Mary de' Medici, settled in Paris, where he died in 1622. Berlin. P&nshanger. Florence. London. Munich. Paris. PittiPal. Hampton Court. Gallery. Louvre. Gallery. Portrait of Henry IV. of France. Portrait of Mary de' Medici. Portrait of Eleanor of Mantua. Portrait of Henry IV. of France. 1610. Portrait of Mary de' Medici. Two Portraits. 1616. Two Portraits of Henry IV. 1610., Portrait of Mary de' Medici. Portrait of W. Du Vair. The Last Supper. 1618. St. Francis receiving the Stig mata. 1620. St. Petersburg. J portraits. Vienna. Gallery. Two Portraits. Valenciennes. Museum. Portrait of Dorothy Duchess de Croy d'Aerschot. 1615. W. H. J. W. POURBUS, Peter, (or Poerrusq son of John, born at Gouda in 1513, travelled in Italy, came to Bruges in 1543, and was admitted as free master into the Guild of St. Luke on August 26, and into the Guild of St. George (cross-bowmen) on March 30, 1544. He married Anne, only daughter of Lancelot Blondeel. He occupied a house in the 'sheer Ian Mirael street to which he gave the name of Rome; his studio was, according to Van Mander, the most spacious and beautiful he had ever seen. He held minor offices in the Guild of St. Luke in 1550-51, 1552-53, 1555-56, 1561-62, 1565-66, 1573-74, and 1579-80, and was Dean in 1569-70, 1580-81, and 1583-84. He was a good geometrician, topographer, and civil engineer. In 1564 he painted for the magistrates of the Franc or Liberty of Bruges a large bird's-eye view on canvas and in oil of...
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