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Michael Vandergucht (née Michiel van der Gucht; c. 1660 – 16 October 1725) was a Flemish engraver and painter who worked for most of his career in England. He engraved portraits, book illustrations, and architectural prints and painted portraits.
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Jacques Backereel, was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter. After training in Antwerp he worked for some time in Rome. He is mainly known for large-scale landscape paintings.
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Andries Benedetti or Andreas Benedetti was a Flemish still life painter mainly active in Antwerp who is known for his fruit still lifes and pronkstillevens.
Simon Hardimé (1672–1737) was a Flemish painter of mixed Walloon and Flemish descent. He is known for his paintings of flowers. He trained in Antwerp and later worked for a few years in the Dutch Republic. He then moved to London where he remained the rest of his life. His patrons included the bourgeoisie in Brussels and Antwerp and aristocrats in the Netherlands and England.
Jacob Leyssens or Jacob Lyssens, was a Flemish painter and decorator. After training in Antwerp, he spent a long time in Rome. After his return to Antwerp, he was active as a painter and decorator and collaborated with prominent Antwerp still life painters such as Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen the Younger and Jan Baptist Bosschaert.
John Gaspar Gevartius or Jan Caspar Gevaerts (1593–1666) was the jurisconsult of Antwerp and in his lifetime a famous philologist. He was a personal friend of Peter Paul Rubens.
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