9. Quintin Mesius
Was brought up in the profession of a Smith at Antwerp, where falling in love with one of the Damosels of that Countrey,
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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- 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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- 1694.
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and perceiving that his dirty profession and the noise of his Anvil was dislastful to his Mistress, and that she preferred a Painter that was his Rival before him, he immediately chang∣ed his hammers and Anvil for pencils and Tables and became so successful that he soon obtained not only the possession of his Mistress but the name of one of the most famous Painters of his time. Several of his Pieces have been seen in England. K. Charles the 1st had an head of Erasmus of his doing in Oval, the Duke of Buckingham, and Earl of Arundel, had the Pictures of several persons of Quality in the Low-Countries so lively painted that nothing could be more natural. He died in the year. 1529.