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CRAYER, GASPARD DE (1582-1669)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 387 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CRAYER, GASPARD DE (1582-1669) , Flemish painter, was born at Antwerp, and learnt the art of painting from Raphael Coxcie. He matriculated in the guild of St Luke at Brussels in 1607, resided in the
capital
  of Brabant till after 166o, and finally settled at
Ghent
 . Amongst the numerous pictures which he painted in
Ghent
 , one in the town museum represents the martyrdom of St Blaise, and bears the inscription A 1668 aet. 86. Crayer was one of the most productive yet one of the most conscientious artists of the later. Flemish school, second to
Rubens
  in vigour and below Vandyck in refinement, but nearly equalling both in most of the essentials of painting. He was well known and always well treated by Albert and
Isabella
 , governors of the
Netherlands
 . The cardinal-infant Ferdinand made him a court-painter. His pictures abound in the churches and museums of Brussels and Ghent; and there is scarcely a country chapel in Flanders or Brabant that cannot boast of one or more of his canvases. But he was equally respected beyond his native country; and some important pictures of his composition are to be found as far
south
  as Aix in
Provence
  and as far
east
  as Amberg in the Upper Palatinate. His skill as a decorative artist is shown in the panels executed for a triumphal arch at the entry of Cardinal Ferdinand into the Flemish
capital
 , some of which are publicly exhibited in the museum of Ghent. Crayer died at Ghent. His best works are the " Miraculous
Draught
  of Fishes " in the gallery of Brussels, the " Judgment of Solomon " in the gallery of Ghent, and " Madonnas with Saints " in the Louvre, the
Munich
  Pinakothek, and the Belvedere at Vienna. His portrait by Vandyck was engraved by P. Pontius.


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