Gaspar de Crayer Charles V crowned as Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement VII at Bologna ca. 1630 oil on canvas Musée Ingres, Montauban |
Gaspar de Crayer after Anthony van Dyck The Lamentation ca. 1649-56 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Gaspar de Crayer after Peter Paul Rubens Descent from the Cross ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Gaspar de Crayer Tobias and the Angel before 1618 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent |
Gaspar de Crayer Equestrian Portrait of Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares ca. 1627 oil on canvas private collection |
Gaspar de Crayer Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV of Spain ca. 1628-32 oil on panel Museo del Prado, Madrid |
Gaspar de Crayer Portrait of Ferdinand of Austria, Cardinal Infante 1639 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
attributed to Gaspar de Crayer Portrait of Anne of Tyrol, Consort of Holy Roman Emperor Mathias ca. 1615 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
Gaspar de Crayer Job seated on a Dung-heap 1619 oil on canvas Musée des Augustins de Toulouse |
Gaspar de Crayer Cimon and Pero (Caritas Romana) ca. 1645 drawing British Museum |
Gaspar de Crayer Cimon and Pero (Caritas Romana) ca. 1620-30 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
Gaspar de Crayer Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria 1622 oil on canvas Musée de Grenoble |
Gaspar de Crayer Virgin and Child enthroned with Mary Magdalen, St Cecilia, St Dorothea, St Catherine of Alexandria and St Augustine 1638 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Gaspar de Crayer St John the Evangelist on Patmos ca. 1649-69 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent |
Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Gaspar de Crayer ca. 1627-35 drawing Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, Derbyshire |
"Gaspar de Crayer was born in Antwerp but spent the majority of his career working in Brussels. From an early stage De Crayer received important commissions for altarpieces, and in 1635 was appointed court painter to Cardinal Infante Ferdinand and later to Archduke Leopold William. Although a considerable success in his own right, De Crayer was heavily influence by the work of Rubens and Van Dyck, helping to disseminate their high-baroque style beyond the artistic circles of Antwerp."
– from a biographical sketch at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh