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 514 Painting in Flanders. Gonzales Coques (1614 — 1684), the pupil of Pieter Brueghel and Ryckaert the younger, has been called " the little Van Dyck," because of his partiality for the style of that artist, and the smallness of his works. Coques's pic- tures are not commonly seen in the continental galleries. His best works are in England. The National Gallery has a Portrait of a Lady, and a fine Family Portrait, a group of eight figures ; a subject in which Coques excelled rather than in single figures. In the Bridgwater House Gallecy there are two full-length portraits of Charles I. and Henrietta Maria. Wallerant Vaillant (1623—1677) studied at Antwerp under Erasmus Quellinus ; and became one of the best portrait-painters of the time, both in Flanders and at the French Court. He executed, besides portraits, numerous genre and historic pictures; he was also an engraver in the newly-discovered process of mezzotint — invented by Ludwig von Siegen (1609 — 1678-80 ?) — the secret of which he was shown by Prince Rupert himself, who has frequently been credited with the invention. Pieter van der Faes (1618 — 1680), known to us as Sir Peter Lely, studied for two years under Pieter de Grebber at Haarlem, and, after the death of Van Dyck in 1641, went to England, where he became the best portrait- painter of the time. Lely managed always to keep in favour with the ruling power ; he painted first for Charles I., then for Crom- well (Fig. 167), and then again for the monarchy under Charles II., by whom he was knighted. His best works are the Beauties of the Court of Charles II., which are hung together at Hampton Court. They display great technical abilities, but an unpleasant sameness in