Anthony van Dyck and Cornelis Galle

Anthony van Dyck born in 1599 in Antwerp, and almost immediately, or at a very young age at the least, Anthony displayed a natural skill for painting, and by 1609 he was studying under an extremely prosperous artist. "By the age of fifteen he was already a highly accomplished artist. He was admitted to the Antwerp painters' Guild of Saint Luke as a free master by February 1618." (Copyright © 1999-2007, HuntFor.com).
After a few years, he was sent to work for Peter Paul Rubens, the only other artist of the time with a name to compete with van Dyck. The experience of working for and with Rubens  was immensely stupendous for Anthony, even then at a relatively young age. Although he did undoubtedly learn a lot, he spent his life defending his honor as "not a pupil" under Rubens, but an assistant, an associate. He was already an experiences and learned and notable artist by the time he was working with Peter Paul Rubens. From 1620-1628 van Dyck traveled from London, to Italy, and around some within the countries, working and painting as he went. From 1628 - 1632 he spent most of his time in Antwerp. In those years, van Dyck learned a priceless lesson of toning down his Flemish stylistic painting, the robustness of a Flemish painters piece. He focused on elegance, detail, and refinement. This was a lesson that took him some time to learn and perfect, but it stayed with him for the remainder of his years as a painter. van Dyck was not only an inspiration to his follower Cornelis Galle, but a huge inspiration to artists all the way up through the twentieth century, and even now. Though he was robbed of being an old man, and died in 1641 at the age of  42, he did produce some wonderful pieces before he passed on.
This one, entitled Charles I in 3 Positions, was painted between 1635 and 1636 while van Dyck was in London 


This one entitled Jupiter and Antiope, was painted in 1641.
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And this one of the same mythical, heavenly style, is called Cupid and Psyche and it was painted in 1640.
ca. 1640. Cornelis Galle, was a Flemish artist of the Flemish Baroque Movement and he was strongly influenced by Anthony van Dyck. His medium was was engraving and publishing. His father was Philip Galle, who also acted as an instructor to his sons. Cornelis went to Rome and remained there until 1610, when he went to Antwerp and became a member of the city's Guild of St. Luke. Soon after, Galle founded his very own school of engraving, in his own name, and many a note-worthy artist studied at the oeuvre de Cornelis Galle. This one, entitled Durer SP Crucifixion, shows the ever popular religious scene of Christ being Crucified on the cross, which many artist depicted in this era. Here is Galle's famous rendition,

 ca. 1650. Engraved while he was in Antwerp in 1650.
And this one,

Entitled The Triumph of Peace, ca. 1612-1655. This is another engraving of a very religious sentiment.