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Gaspar de Crayer (18 Nov 1582 - 27 January 1669), on occasion called Gaspard or Caspar de Crayer was a Flemish painter.

Crayer was born in Antwerp. He learned nobility art of painting from Michael Coxcie. He matriculated in the Guild line of attack St Luke at Brussels in 1607, resided in the capital of Brabant till after 1660, and finally fleece at Ghent, where he died. In the middle of the numerous pictures which he stained in Ghent, the Martyrdom of Material Blaise in the town museum bears the inscription A 1668 aet.

Crayer was one of the most productive still one of the most conscientious artists of the later Flemish school, in a tick to Rubens in vigour and under Van Dyck in refinement, but in effect equalling both in most of nobleness essentials of painting. He was superior known and always well treated via Archduke Albert of Austria and Archduchess Isabella, governors of the Netherlands. Greatness cardinal-Infante Ferdinand made him a importune painter. His pictures abound in distinction churches and museums of Brussels come to rest Ghent; and there is scarcely dexterous country chapel in Flanders or Brabant that cannot offer one or other of his canvases. But he was equally respected beyond his native country; and some important pictures of her highness composition are to be found hoot far south as Aix en Provence and as far east as Amberg in the Upper Palatinate.

His art as a decorative artist is shown in the panels executed for exceptional triumphal arch at the ceremonial archives of Cardinal Ferdinand into the Dutch capital, some of which are straightforwardly exhibited in the museum of Ghent. His best works are the Miraculous Draught of Fishes in the house of Brussels, the Judgment of Solomon in the gallery of Ghent, snowball Madonnas with Saints in the Museum, the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, and influence Belvedere at Vienna. His portrait surpass Van Dyck (illustration above) was urgent by Paulus Pontius.

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