72, Fruit
and Still Life; Jacob Grimmer, 1510, Landscapes; Peter Hardime, Fruit
and Flowers; Minderhout Hobbima, 1611, Landscapes; John Van Hoeck, 1600,
History and Portraits; Robert Van Hoeck, 1609, Battles; Dirk, or
Theodore Van Hoogeshaeten, 1596, Landscapes and Still Life; Cornelius
Huysman, 1648, Landscapes and Animals; Abraham Janssens, 1569, History;
John Van Kessel, 1626, Flowers, Portraits, Birds, Insects, and Reptiles;
David De Koning, Animals, Birds, and Flowers; Balthasar Van Lemens,
1637, History; N. Leyssens, 1661, History; Peter Van Lint, 1609, History
and Portraits; Godfrey Maes, 1660, History; Quintin Matsys, 1460,
History and Portraits; John Matsys, son of the above, Portrait and
History; Minderhout, 1637, Sea Ports and Landscapes; Peter Neefs, the
old, 1570, Churches, Perspective, and Architecture; William Van
Nieulant, 1584, Landscapes and Architecture; Adam Van Oort, 1557,
History, Portraits, and Landscapes; Bonarentine, Peters, 1614, Sea
Pieces, and particularly Storms; Erasmus Quellinus, 1607, History;
Jacques de Roore, 1686, History and Conversations; Martin Ryckaert,
1591, Landscapes, with Architecture and Ruins; David Ryckaert, the
younger, 1615, Conversations, and Apparitions to St. Anthony; Anthony
Schoonjans, 1655, History and Portraits; Cornelius Schut, 1600, History;
Peter Snayers, 1593, History, Battles, &c.; Francis Snyders, 1579,
Animals, Fruit, Still Life, and Landscapes; David Teniers, 1582,
Conversations; Sir Anthony Van Dyke, 1599, History and Portraits; Paul
Vansomer, 1576, Portraits; Lucas Vanuden, 1595, Landscapes; Adrian Van
Utrecht, 1599, Birds, Fruit, Flowers, and Dead Game; Gasper Peter
Verbruggen, 1668, Flowers; Simon Verelst, 1664, Fruit, Flowers, and
Portraits; Verendael, 1659, Fruit and Flowers; Tobias Verhaecht, 1566,
Landscapes and Architecture; Martin de Vos, 1520, History, Landscape,
and Portrait; Simon De Vos, 1603, History, Portraits, and Hunting; Lucas
De Waal, 1591, Battles and Landscapes; Adam Willaerts, 1577, Storms,
Calms, and Sea Ports; John Wildens, 1584, Landscapes and Figures.

Peter Paul Rubens was of a distinguished family at _Antwerp_; but
his father being (says Pilkington) under the necessity of quitting his
country, to avoid the calamities attendant on a civil war, retired for
security to Cologne; and during his residence in that city Rubens was
born, in 1577. The day of his nativity was the Feast of St. Peter and
St. Paul; and thence he received at th