The Americana: An Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc;, of the World (Classic Reprint)

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Luke in 1591. After 1600 he resided at Brussels, then in Italy at the court of the Duke of Mantua and after 1610 was court painter to Henry IV. Of France. Of the latter monarch he painted sev eral portraits, also he painted Maria de' Medicis, the Louvre portrait of the queen being accounted his greatest work. A portrait of Catherine de' Medicis from his hands is in Madrid. His por traits are inferior to those of his father in warmth of color.

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