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198 collection. Yet even at this time there were moments when Diepenbeck probably fancied that he might take another path. A solitary copperplate executed with his uwu hand in 1630 represents a peasant sitting under a tree holding the bridle of an ass, aud this is a minute and finished specimen of the engraver s art which shows that the master might at one time have hoped to rival the animal draughtsmen who flourished in the schools of Holland. However, large commissions now poured in upon him ; he was asked for altar-pieces, subject-pieces, and pagan allegories. He was tempted to try the profession of a glass-painter, and at last he gave up every other occupation for the lucrative business of a draughtsman and designer for engravings. Most of Diepeubeck s important can vases are in Continental galleries. The best are the Marriage of St Catherine at Berlin, and Mary with Angels Wailing over the Dead Body of Christ in the Belve dere at Vienna, the first a very fair specimen of the artist s skill, the second a picture of more energy and feeling than might be expected from one who knew more of the outer form than of the spirit of llubens. Then we have a fine Entombment at Brunswick, and St Francis Adoring the Sacrament at the museum of Brussels, Clelia aud her Nymphs Flying from the Presence and Pursuit of Porsenuaintwo examples at Berlin and Paris, and Neptune and Amphitrite at Dresden. In all these compositions the dra.vingand execution are after the fashion of Eubens, though inferior to llubens in harmony of tone and force of contrasted light and shade. Occasionally a tendency may be observed to imitate the style of Vandyck, for whom, in respect of pictures, Diepenbeck in his lifetime was fre quently taken. But Diepeubeck spent much less of his leisure on canvases than on glass-painting. Though he failed to master the secrets of gorgeous tinting, which were lost, apparently for ever in the 16th century, he was constantly employed during the best years of his life in that branch of his profession. In 1635 he finished forty scenes from the life of St Francis of Paula in the church of the Minimes at Antwerp. In 1044 he received payment for four windows in St Jacques of Antwerp, two of which are still preserved, and represent the Virgins to whom Christ appears after the Insurrection. The windows ascribed to him at St Gudule of Brussels are now proved to have been executed from the cartoons of Theodore van Thulden. On the occasion of his matricula tion at Antwerp in 1638-9, Diepenbeck was registered in the guild of St Luke as a glass-painter. He resigned his membership in the Artist Club of the Violette in 1542, apparently because he felt hurt by a valuation then made of drawings furnished for copper-plates to the engraver Pieter de Jode. The earliest record of his residence at Antwerp is that of his election to the brotherhood (Soda- litat) &quot;of the Bachelors&quot; in 1634. It is probable that before this time he had visited Home and London, as noted in the work of Houbraken. In 1636 he was made a burgess of Antwerp. He married twice, in 1637 and 1652. His death took place in December 1675, and his funeral was celebrated at St Jacques of Antwerp on the 31st day of that mouth.

1em  DIEPPE, a of, at the head of an  in the  of, 38 s north of  and 125 north-west of  by , in 49° 55′ 35″ N. . and 1° 5′ 9″ E. . It lies at the  of the , in a hollow of the ,—the main part of the  being on the west side of , and the  of  on the east. Its principal stretches for about a  along the, and terminates in the west at the foot of the  , which is surmounted by a  of the , now employed as. The whole has a modern aspect; its s are wide and regular, and its  mostly  of. The principal is the  of, which was founded in the , but consists in good measure of considerably later workmanship, and has in some portions been restored in ; the main entrance (of the ) and the   are worthy of special remark. It is sufficient to mention the of  (–), the, the , the , and the   which preserves some fragments of 's. As the chief of an, and an important , Dieppe is the seat of a large number of public s. Its , which has been greatly improved during , is protected by two s, admits s of 500 s , and has a large floating. There is regular  with, the passage to  being accomplished in about six s. The general  of the , both  and , is extensive; and it carries on , -, , , and a remarkable  of articles in  and , which dates from the. The  alone employ upwards of 1000 work people. s in large numbers are tened in the retenue des chasses; and the of  are among the main providers of the ian s. Ever since the  of the  (whose favourite, the maison Quenouille, is still pointed out) the  has been a fashionable ; and in  a large  was erected after the model of the. The so-called Jardin Anglais, the Cours Bourbon, and the s are the principal s: and the of, the d', the  of , and the ancient , locally known as la cité des Limes, are the most interesting objects of interest in the neighbourhood. in, 16,216; and in , 19,757.

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