was initially connected to the visual imagery of the Counter-Reformation movement. It was further inspired by the cult of veneration and devotion to Mary prevalent at the Habsburg court (then the rulers over the Southern Netherlands) and in Antwerp generally. Coques is believed to have collaborated with specialist still life painters Gerard Seghers, Jan Brueghel the Younger and Catarina Ykens-Floquet on garland paintings. Notes Further reading Marion Lisken-Pruss, Gonzales Coques (1614-1684): Der Kleine Van Dyck, Brepols Publishers, 2011 External links Flemish Baroque painters Flemish portrait painters Flemish history painters Flemish genre painters Artists from Antwerp Painters from Antwerp Court painters 1610s births 1684 deaths