The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...

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Title: The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...
Publication: [London :: s.n.],; 1694.
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Subject terms: Artists.; Engravers.; Portraits.; Artists -- Portraits.
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54. Francis Wouters

Born in the year. 1614 was the disciple of Rubens, a good Painter of Figures in small, chiefly naked, and of Landskips; His Merits promoted him to be Painter to the Emperor Ferdinand the Second, with whose Ambassadour, he travailed into England where, upon the death of the Emperor his Master, in the year 1637, he was made Painter to King Charles the Second when Prince of Wales, and lived a considerable time at London in great esteem.