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In Antwerp. 505 before Christ is the principal. The Ghent Museum pos- sesses the Coronation of 8. Rosalia and the Martyrdom of S. Blaize. Jan Wildens (1580 — 1653) and Lucas van Uden (1595 — 1672) were celebrated for their landscapes. They fre- quently painted backgrounds to the pictures of Rubens and other figure painters. Van Uden may be well studied in the Dresden Gallery. Gerard Zegers (1591 — 1651), a pupil of Van Balen and Abraham Janssens, painted in Italy and Spain. The Antwerp Museum possesses his masterpiece, the Marriage of the Virgin. Joost Suttermans (1597 — 1681), though a Fleming by birth, really belongs to the Florentine School. He went to Italy in early life, and was chiefly employed by the Grand Dukes of Tuscany. Theodoor Rombouts (1597 — 1637) painted in early life in Italy, but returned to Antwerp, and became famous for his sacred pictures. His masterpiece is the Deposition from the Cross, in the Cathedral at Ghent. (b) The Pupils of Rubens. Of Rubens' s numerous pupils the chief was Antoon van Dyck, whose works are as well known in England as those of any other master. Inferior to Rubens in imagination and energy of character, he excelled him in feeling for spiritual beauty, in elevation of sentiment, and refinement of execution. Van Dyck was pre-eminently a portrait painter, and as such is admitted to rank with Titian ; but he also attained to high excellence in the treatment of sacred subjects. Antoon van Dyck (1599 — 1641), of Antwerp, originally