Pieter van Schuppen

[2] Pieter van Schuppen studied painting in Antwerp from 1639 and became master in the local guild of St Luke in 1651.

He then left Antwerp and settled in 1655 in Paris, where he became a pupil of Robert Nanteuil, the foremost French engraver of his time.

Their son Jacob van Schuppen was taught the principles of art by his father and became a prominent painter in Vienna.

[2] He left about 119 prints, mainly portraits of famous individuals of his day such as Cardinal Rinaldo d' Este, Mazarin and King Louis XIV of France.

He also made reproductive prints of the history paintings of other artists an example of which is the St Sebastian after Anthony van Dyck.