publisher and promoter of the first edition Joannes Meyssens had died in 1670 and de Bie had difficulty finding another publisher. Historical reliability Like Vasari and Van Mander before him, de Bie's biographies are interspersed with amusing anecdotes. Although such literary motifs belong to a long rhetorical tradition, many of these stories were labelled "historically unreliable" by leading historians in the 19th century. Only recently have some of the stories been reinstated. Since the book was often the only surviving source of information on certain painters, these stories have often been repeated as hard facts about the lives of the painters described. For instance, Cornelis de Bie postulates certain apprenticeships, which are now considered improbable because the pupil painted in a completely different genre than the teacher. De Bie's statement that Philips Wouwerman trained with Frans Hals was deemed implausible by later historians since Wouwerman painted landscapes with horses and Hals was principally a portrait painter. Some scholars still consider this apprenticeship as unlikely, but in view of Hals' large workshop it cannot be entirely excluded. Artists in Het Gulden Cabinet, Part I The engraved portraits included as illustrations in Book I are below, followed by the artists listed in order of appearance in the text. The first illustration is of Antoon van Leyen, to whom the book is dedicated. Adam van Noort p 37 Otto van Veen p 39 Abraham Bloemaert p 45 Tobias Verhaeght p 47 Adam Elsheimer p 49 Guido Reni p 52 Petrus Paulus Rubens p 57 Frans Snyders p 61 Guiliam Nieulandt p 63 Abraham Janssens p 65 Anthony van Dyck p 75 Gillis Mostaert p 79 Pieter Brueghel p 89 Adriaen Brouwer p 91 Gerard Seghers p 97 Lodewijk de Vadder p 98 Wenceslas Cobergher p 101 Jan Antonisz. van Ravesteyn p 102 Palamedes Palamedesz. (I) p 102 Michiel van Mierevelt p 103 Cornelis Schut p 103 Jan Snellinck p 104 Cornelis de Vos p 104 Orazio Gentileschi p 105 Andries van Eertvelt p 105 Adriaen van Utrecht p 106 Willem Backereel p 108 Gilles Backereel p 108 Jan de Wael I p 108 Joos van Craesbeeck p 109 Abraham Matthys p 110 Adam Willaerts p 111 Jean Guiliam Bouwer p 113 Nikolaus Knüpfer p 115 Jan van Bijlert p 117 Jan van Balen p 119 Roelant Savery p 125 Johannes Parcelis p 126 Jan Wildens p 126 Hendrik vander Borght the elder p