Engelbert Ergo

His few known works often include religious elements or allegories.

[1] He was registered in the guild year 1629–30 under the name Engel Ergo in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a pupil of Kerstiaen de Keuninck, an artist known for his oeuvre of landscapes and disaster scenes.

[1] He is believed to have worked for the Antwerp art dealers such as the Forchondt family.

For instance a landscape painting held by the Pushkin Museum contains an allegorical meaning relating to patience and the painting is therefore referred to as the Allegory of Patience.

[4] Ergo made copies of his own work as is demonstrated by the fact that a similar Allegory of Patience was auctioned at Christie's in 2012 (Amsterdam auction of 14 November 2012, lot 33).