Pieter van Lint

During his training he frequently visited Antwerp's churches to copy the paintings of his contemporaries such as Peter Paul Rubens as well as those of earlier generations such as Marten de Vos and the Francken brothers.

Van Lint also frescoed the Cybo family chapel in the Santa Maria del Popolo with the Legend of the True Cross in 1636–40.

[1] His earliest works follow his master Wolffort's style, which was itself indebted to the academic manner of Otto van Veen.

During his stay in Rome he made many studies after the antique and developed an interest in classicism, which remained a constant characteristic of his style.

[2] Many of his later works were religious paintings, such as the Marriage of the Virgin (1640) in Antwerp Cathedral, which were in the classicizing style of Wollfort and his Roman examples.

[6] Four oils on copper works by van Lint are in the collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid, including a copy after Rubens.

A tapestry series dated 1639 on the Story of the Virgin Mary still preserved in the Pottery convent in Bruges is believed to have been made after models by Pieter van Lint.