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

Frans Hals
(1582 - 1666)

Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate their homes with works of art. Hals was highly sought after by wealthy burgher commissioners of individual, married-couple, family, and institutional-group portraits. He also painted tronies for the general market.

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

Stephanus Geraerdts, Alderman in Haarlem
1650 - 1652
Oil on canvas
114.5 × 86.5 cm 
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/stephanus-geraerdts-alderman-in-haarlem

Michaelina Wautier 
(1604 - 1689)

Michaelina Wautier, also Woutiers, was a painter from the Southern Netherlands. Only since the start of the 21st century has her work been recognized as that of the outstanding female artist of Flemish Baroque painting, her works having been previously attributed to male artists, especially her brother Charles.
Wautier was noted for the variety of subjects and genres that she worked in. This was unusual for female artists of the time who were more often restricted to smaller paintings, generally portraits or still-lifes.

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

Two Girls as Saint Agnes and Saint Dorothy
c. 1650
Oil on canvas
89.7 x 122 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/two-girls-as-saint-agnes-and-saint-dorothy

Jacob Jordaens

(1593 - 1678)

Jacques (Jacob) Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints. He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations of Flemish sayings and portraits. After the death of Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he became the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his time. Unlike those illustrious contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study the Antique and Italian painting and, except for a few short trips to locations elsewhere in the Low Countries, he resided in Antwerp his entire life. He also remained largely indifferent to Rubens and van Dyck's intellectual and courtly aspirations. He expressed this attitude in his art by avoiding idealistic treatment of his subject in contrast to these contemporaries.


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

As the Old Sang, So Pipe the Young
1638
oil on canvas
118.4 x 188.5 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/as-the-old-sang-so-pipe-the-young

Anthony van Dyck
(1599 - 1641)
 

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.

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

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
1640
Oil on canvas
115.5 cm x 207,5 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-lamentation-over-the-dead-christ-2

Peter Paul Rubens
(1577 - 1640 )
 

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.

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

The Adoration of the Magi
1624-1625
Oil on panel
447 x 336 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-adoration-of-the-magi-6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens

Frans Floris
(1519 – 1570)
 

Frans Floris, Frans Floris the Elder or Frans Floris de Vriendt  was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, print artist and tapestry designer. He is mainly known for his history paintings, allegorical scenes and portraits. He played an important role in the movement in Northern Renaissance painting referred to as Romanism. The Romanists had typically travelled to Italy to study the works of leading Italian High Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and their followers. Their art assimilated these Italian influences into the Northern painting tradition.

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

The Fall of the Rebel Angels
1554
Oil on panel
303 x 220 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-fall-of-the-rebel-angels

 Lucas Cranach I
 (1472–1553)
 

Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm. He was a close friend of Martin Luther, and eleven portraits of that reformer by him survive. Cranach also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued to paint nude subjects from mythology and religion throughout his career.

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

Charity
1540
Oil on panel
50 x 34 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/charity

Joachim Patinir
(1480 - 1524)
 

Joachim Patinir was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects. He was born in Wallonia, but in his mature career worked in Antwerp, then the centre of the art market in the Low Countries. Patinir was a pioneer of landscape as an independent genre and he was the first Netherlandish painter to regard himself primarily as a landscape painter. He effectively invented the world landscape, a distinct style of panoramic northern Renaissance landscapes which is Patinir's important contribution to Western art. His work marks an important stage in the development of the representation of perspective in landscape painting.

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

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
(1516-1517)
Oil on panel
17 x 21 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/landscape-with-the-flight-into-egypt

Quentin Matsys
(1466–1530)

Quentin Matsys was a Flemish painter in the Early Netherlandish tradition. He was born in Leuven. According to tradition, he trained as an ironsmith before becoming a painter. Matsys was active in Antwerp for over 20 years, creating numerous works with religious roots and satirical tendencies. He is regarded as the founder of the Antwerp school of painting, which became the leading school of painting in Flanders in the 16th century. He introduced new techniques and motifs as well as moralising subjects without completely breaking with tradition.

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

Altarpiece of the Joiners’ Guild
1511
oil on panel
260 x 503 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/altarpiece-of-the-joiners-guild

Antonello da Messina
(C. 1425–1479)

Antonello da Messi, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni and Anglicized as Anthony of Messina, was an Italian painter from Messina, active during the Italian Early Renaissance.

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

Calvary
1475
oil on panel
52.5 × 42.5 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/calvary

Hans Memling 
(c. 1430 - 1494)
 

Hans Memling was a German-Flemish painter who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. Born in the Middle Rhine region, he probably spent his childhood in Mainz. During his apprenticeship as a painter he moved to the Netherlands and spent time in the Brussels workshop of Rogier van der Weyden. In 1465 he was made a citizen of Bruges, where he became one of the leading artists and the master of a large workshop. A tax document from 1480 lists him among the wealthiest citizens. Memling's religious works often incorporated donor portraits of the clergymen, aristocrats, and burghers (bankers, merchants, and politicians) who were his patrons. These portraits built upon the styles which Memling learned in his youth.

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

God the Father with Singing Angels
1483 -1494
Oil on panel
164 x 212
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/god-the-father-with-singing-angels

Rogier van der Weyden 
(1399 - 1464)
 

Rogier van der Weyden, initially known as Roger de la Pasture, was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He was highly successful in his lifetime; his paintings were exported to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, Philip the Good, Netherlandish nobility, and foreign aristocrats. By the latter half of the 15th century, he had eclipsed Jan van Eyck in popularity. However his fame lasted only until the 17th century, and largely due to changing taste, he was almost totally forgotten by the mid-18th century. His reputation was slowly rebuilt during the 200 years that followed; today he is known, with Robert Campin and van Eyck, as the third (by birth date) of the three great Early Netherlandish artists (Vlaamse Primitieven or "Flemish Primitives"), and widely as the most influential Northern painter of the 15th century.

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

The Seven Sacraments
1440 - 1445
Oil on panel
200 x 223 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-seven-sacraments

Jean Fouquet
(1420 - 1481)

Jean (or Jehan) Fouque was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from the period between the late Gothic and early Renaissance. He was the first French artist to travel to Italy and experience first-hand the early Italian Renaissance. 

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

Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim
C. 1450
Oil on panel
92 cm x 83.5 cm 
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/madonna-surrounded-by-seraphim-and-cherubim

Jan van Eyck
(1390 - 1441)

Jan van Eyck was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the supreme figures of the Early Northern Renaissance. Such was his legacy, that he has been called “the inventor of oil-painting” by Vasari, Ernst Gombrich, and others, although this claim is now considered an oversimplification. 

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

Saint Barbara
1437
Oil on Panel
32 x 18.2 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/saint-barbara

 Simone Martini 
(1284 - 1344)
 

Simone Martini was an Italian painter born in Siena. He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style. 

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

The Annunciation
1320 - 1330
tempera and gold leaf on panel
23 x 14 cm
KMSKA, Antwerpen
https://kmska.be/en/masterpiece/the-annunciation-1