Portrait of Abraham Grapheus
Portrait of Abraham Grapheus is a 1620 painting by
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp. Its subject was a fellow member of Antwerp's Guild of St Luke, of which de Vos was then dean.[1][2] The work was taken to Paris by the French occupiers of the Southern Netherlands
between 1794 and 1796. It returned to Antwerp in 1815, where it hung in the Antwerp Academy.
Grapheus wears a set of silver plates, normally worn by the guild's head, one of which bears the ox's head, a symbol of
Sebastiaan Vrancx
(1612).
References
- ^ Abraham Grapheus on museum website
- BALaTdatabase