Coques (or Cocx), Gonzales (1618-1684)

Flemish portrait and genre painter. In 1671 he became painter to Count Monterey, Governor General of the Low Countries. Sometimes he depicted tavern and rustic scenes, but he excelled in portraiture, in which he took Anthony van Dyck as his model.

He was a pupil of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and the minor painter David Ryckaert. He had great success with paintings on a miniature scale, and his works found favour with such patrons as the archduke Leopold, the Prince of Orange, and Charles I of England.