Anthoni Goubau (1616 – 1698),

• Was a Flemish Baroque painter.
• Goubau was born in a well-off family in Antwerp.
• He commenced his study of painting under Jan de Farius in 1629.
• He became a master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1636 or 1637.
• He is recorded in Paris in 1642 and then travelled on to Italy.
• He stayed in Rome from 1644 to 1650.
• Here he became close to the group of genre painters around Pieter van Laar commonly referred to as the 'Bamboccianti'.
• In 1650 Goubau returned to Antwerp, where he received many commissions for religious works.
• He also continued to paint Italianate landscapes with many figures and antique ruins serving an international clientele including German aristocrats.
• His pupils included Abraham Couchet, Arnold Gerardi, Justus Gerardi, Laureys Goubau, Nicolas de Largillière, Jan Baptist Tijssens the Elder and Jan Baptist Tijssens the Younger.
• Goubau died in Antwerp on 11 March 1698.
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