Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Holland - Belgium "Portrait of an Officer" by Frans Hals, (1580 - 1666) Hals was born at Antwerp in Flanders the year Francis Drake returned from his voyage of circumnavigation of the globe and in which the Spani

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Holland - Belgium "Frans Hals and his second Wife, Lysbeth Reyniers" by Frans Hals (1580 - 1666) painted c. 1617, the year in which Pocahontas died. Hals was born at Antwerp in Flanders the year Francis Drake retur

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Belgium "The Entombment" by Quentin Massys (1465-1530) This Flemish artist is considered to be the first important painter of the Antwerp school. His work is noted for detailed expressions on individual faces of wh

Paintings & Engravings - Engraving - Belgium "The Descent from the Cross" - in the Cathedral at Antwerp by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) of the Flemish Baroque school Rubens was born at Siegen in what is now Holland and lived during the tumultuous yea

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