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Plantin Press had been famous. This reflected
Antwerp's decline as an intellectual and humanistic centre at the time of Balthasar II. The portraits of van den Wouwer and Malderus, who were both deceased when the portrait commission was given, appear to be based on portraits of the same persons by van Dyck. The portraits of the Chifflets may have been made from life as both were alive and often in Antwerp where van Meurs could portray them.
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Only very few works by van Meurs are known. The known works are all portraits and were commissioned by the
Moretus family, owners of the Plantin Press and linked with the van Meurs family through marriage and business ties. The Moretus family had employed various prominent Antwerp portrait painters
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Antwerp, one of the leading publishing houses in Europe, after his own father died in 1619. Balthazar Moretus started a partnership with Jan van Meurs which lasted until 1629. Jan van Meurs also worked closely with the Nutius family of printers. Through these collaborations and family
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Balthasar became in April 1637 a member of the 'Sodaliteit van de
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Balthasar van Meurs was born in
Antwerp some time between 1612 and 1619 as the son of Jan van Meurs. His father was a publisher and served as an
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De boekdrukkers, boekverkoopers en uitgevers in
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in Antwerp. His mother Catharina or Catelijne de Sweert was a sister of Maria de Sweert, who was the wife of
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connections Jan van Meurs was part of the circle of humanists in Antwerp of which Rubens was also a member.
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