Adam van Noort

His father was active primarily as a designer of stained-glass windows and engravings, an architect, and, to a lesser extent, a painter.

The commission to paint the substituted panels did finally not go to van Noort but to Maerten de Vos.

[3] Adam's present-day fame largely rests on the fact that he was the teacher of two of the leading Flemish Baroque painters, Peter Paul Rubens and Jacob Jordaens.

Jordaens married van Noort's daughter, Elisabeth, and would influence the style of his teacher and father-in-law.

[4] He collaborated with Marten de Vos and Ambrosius Francken on the decorations for the Joyous Entry of Archduke Ernest of Austria in 1594.

[5] Later, with the arrival in his workshop and under the influence of Jacob Jordaens, he adopted some of the dynamism and monumentality of the Baroque into his work.