Anton Ghering (died 1668) was a

Flemish Baroque painter Flemish Baroque painting refers to the art produced in the Southern Netherlands during Spanish control in the 16th and 17th centuries. The period roughly begins when the Dutch Republic was split from the Habsburg Spain regions to the south with ...

who specialized in architectural church interiors. He is best known for his interior of the

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

church of ''St. Walburgis'' (

Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Dutch: ''Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen'', ''KMSKA'') is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810, that houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth t ...

) which records the original placement along with the frame and

predella In art a predella (plural predelle) is the lowest part of an altarpiece, sometimes forming a platform or step, and the painting or sculpture along it, at the bottom of an altarpiece, sometimes with a single much larger main scene above, but oft ...

paintings of

Peter Paul Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque traditio ...

's '' Raising of the Cross''.Susanne Heiland, "Two Rubens Paintings Rehabilitated," in ''The Burlington Magazine'', vol. 111, no. 796. (July, 1969), pp. 421–427 (esp. p. 426).

Sources

* Hans Jantzen, ''Das Niederländische Architekturbild'', Braunschweig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1910 * Bernard G. Maillet, ''La Peinture Architecturale des Ecoles du Nord : les Intérieurs d'Eglises 1580-1720'', Pandora Publishers Wijnegem, 2012, 1668 deaths Flemish Baroque painters Year of birth unknown {{Flemish-painter-stub