Alexandre Cabanel 
(1823 - 1889)
 

Alexandre Cabanel was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon III's preferred painter and, with Gérôme and Meissonier, was one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Cabanel

Cleopatra
1887
Oil on canvas
162 x 287.6 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/cleopatra

Henri Leys
(1815 - 1869)

Henri Leys, Hendrik Leys or Jan August Hendrik, Baron Leys  was a Belgian painter and printmaker. He was a leading representative of the historical or Romantic school in Belgian art and became a pioneer of the Realist movement in Belgium. His history and genre paintings and portraits earned him a European-wide reputation and his style was influential on artists in and outside Belgium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_August_Hendrik_Leys

 

Albrecht Dürer Visiting Antwerp in 1520
1855
Acrylic on canvas
90 × 160 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/albrecht-durer-visiting-antwerp-in-1520

Adriaen Brouwer
(1605 - 1638)
 

Adriaen Brouwer was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century. Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other "lower class" individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings. Brouwer contributed to the development of the genre of tronies, i.e. head or facial studies, which investigate varieties of expression. In his final year he produced a few landscapes of a tragic intensity. Brouwer's work had an important influence on the next generation of Flemish and Dutch genre painters. Although Brouwer produced only a small body of work, Dutch masters Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt collected it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_Brouwer

Village Fair
1964
Oil on panel
46 × 62 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/village-fair-1

Theodoor Rombouts
(1597 - 1637)
 

Theodoor Rombouts was a Flemish painter who is mainly known for his Caravaggesque genre scenes depicting lively dramatic gatherings as well as religiously themed works. He is considered to be the primary and most original representative of Flemish Caravaggism. These Caravaggisti were part of an international movement of European artists who interpreted the work of Caravaggio and the followers of Caravaggio in a personal manner.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoor_Rombouts

The Card Players
Early 1600’s
Oil in canvas
151.5 × 205 cm.
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-card-players

Clara Peeters
(1594 (?) –1676(?))
 

Clara Peeters was a Flemish still-life painter from Antwerp who worked in both the Spanish Netherlands and Dutch Republic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Peeters

Still Life with Fish
1612-1621
Oil on panel
35 × 48 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/still-life-with-fish

Rembrandt
(1606 - 1669)

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, mononymously known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art. It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

Portrait of a Clergyman
1637
Oil on canvas
132 x 109 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/portrait-of-a-clergyman

Cornelis de Vos
(1584 - 1651)
 

Cornelis de Vos was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and art dealer. He was one of the leading portrait painters in Antwerp and is best known for his sensitive portraits, in particular of children and families. He was also successful in other genres including history, religious and genre painting. He was a regular collaborator with Rubens. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_de_Vos

Portrait of a Family
1631
Oilon canvas
165 x 235 cm 
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/portrait-of-a-family-2