Gonzales Coques

Portrait of Coques engraved by Paulus Pontius after a self-portrait

Gonzales Coques[1] (between 1614 and 1618 – 18 April 1684) was a Flemish painter of portraits and history paintings.[2] Because of his artistic proximity to and emulation with Anthony van Dyck he received the nickname de kleine van Dyck (the little van Dyck). Coques was also active as an art dealer.[3]

  1. ^ Name variations: Gonzalve Coc, Gonsaeles Cocx, Gonzales Coquez, Gonsalo Kocks, Gonsael Kockque, registered in the Guild of Saint Luke as Gonzales Cocx
  2. ^ Veronique van Passel, "Coques [Cocks; Cox], Gonzales [Consael; Gonsalo]", Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [accessed 4 October 2015.
  3. ^ Ursula Härting, Review of Marion Lisken-Pruss, Gonzales Coques (1614–1684). Der kleine Van Dyck (Pictura Nova. Studies in 16th- and 17th- Century Flemish Painting and Drawing XIII). Turnhout: Brepols 2013. 495 pp, 29 col. pls, 120 b&w illus. ISBN 978-2-503-51568-7, in: historians of netherlandish art, Newsletter and Review of Books Vol. 30, No. 2, November 2013, pp. 46–47