Gonzales Coques (1614 - 1684)

• Was a Flemish painter of portraits and history paintings.
• Coques also worked as an art dealer.
• Gonzales Coques was first registered in 1626-1627 at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.
• He was a pupil of Pieter Brueghel the Younger or his son Pieter Brueghel III.
• Coques became a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in the Guild year 1640-1641.
• He married on 11 August 1643 with Catharina Ryckaert (died on 2 July 1674) who was the daughter of David Rijckaert II, his presumed master, the couple had two children. 
• The prominent Antwerp painter David Ryckaert III was therefore his brother-in-law.
• He served twice as the deacon of the Guild of Saint Luke.
• In 1671 he became court painter to Juan Dominico de Zuniga y Fonseca, the governor of the Southern Netherlands who resided in Brussels.
• After the death of his first wife, Coques married Catharina Rysheuvels on 21 March 1675. 
• They had no children.
• Gonzales Coques had two apprentices: Cornelis van den Bosch and Lenardus-Franciscus Verdussen.
• He died in Antwerp on 18 April 1684.
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