Cornelis Vermeulen

[2] In the years 1682 to 1683, he was active in Paris, where he moved in the circle of Flemish artists, amongst them the Antwerp battle and portrait painter Constantijn Francken.

[2] He maintained contact with Paris to which he often returned and where he was connected with the workshop of the Flemish printmaker Gérard Edelinck.

He made portrait prints after the works of Nicolas de Largillière, Pierre Mignard, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Adriaen van der Werff and others.

[5] He also made reproductive prints after the works of the old masters such as Rubens, Adriaen van der Werff and Francesco Trevisani.

The book recounts the ordeal of Gabriel Dellon, a French Roman Catholic physician who had traveled in the East Indies, where he was arrested, tortured and convicted to the galleys by the Inquisition in Goa.