Quintin Matsys

A steel Shield, richly embossed with Figures, by Quintin Matsys, very curious and rare.

Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. John Burnet

There are several other fine paintings here -- one of them said to be the best performance of Quintin Matsys, who, under the inspiration of love, deserted the anvil for the pallet; and another by his father-in-law, Flors, supposed to be the identical picture upon which the _ci devant_ blacksmith painted a bee, with such skill as to obtain the old artist's cordial consent to the marriage of Matsys with his daughter.

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And he went on to recall a bygone moment in the Brussels Gallery, when, as he was standing before the great Quintin Matsys, he was accosted with sudden careless familiarity by a thin, shabbily dressed man, in whose dark distinction, made still more fantastic and conspicuous by the fever and the emaciation of consumption, he recognized at once Marriott

Lady Rose's Daughter Humphry Ward 1885

Quintin Matsys, the blacksmith of Antwerp, was born at Louvain about

The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870

The vitality of the legend is indicated by the inscription on a tablet to the memory of Quintin Matsys in the

The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870

Holbein, but by other painters -- for Erasmus was painted by Albert Dürer and Quintin Matsys, -- that this special portrait, like the true Holbein family portrait of the More family, remains very much a subject of speculation.

The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870

There is a traditional grouping of this Divine tragedy, and Quintin Matsys has followed the tradition.

The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870

Still Quintin Matsys version remains, and is in some respects an unsurpassed picture.

The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870

Whatever might have been his source of inspiration, Quintin Matsys was an apt scholar.

The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870

A long interval elapsed between the Van Eycks and Quintin Matsys, and

The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870