Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596–1675)

• Was a Dutch painter.
• Van Diepenbeeck was baptised in 's-Hertogenbosch.
• After having received a classical education, he became a pupil and assistant of Peter Paul Rubens.
• He handled mythological and historical subjects, as well as portraits.

• He went to Antwerp about 1629 and made his first successes in painting on glass.

• Van Diepenbeek was admitted to the guild of painters in 1638.

• He became director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) in 1641.

• It was after a visit to Italy that the artist began to paint chiefly in oil and to illustrate.

• Among his illustrations are fifty-eight designs engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert for Michel de Marolles' "Tableaux du Temple des Muses". 

• During the reign of Charles I of England, van Diepenbeeck was in England where he was painting portraits of the first Duke of Newcastle and his family.

• He died, aged 79, in Antwerp. 

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