cultural centres Rome, Florence and Venice. Genoa was a thriving port city where a large number of potential patrons and collectors lived. In Genoa Malo completed various commissions for local churches and palaces. Malo later travelled to Florence with his family and resided and worked there for a while. He then travelled to Rome around 1642. He died in Rome on 14 April 1644. His family returned to Antwerp and in 1652 his son was admitted in the local Guild of St. Luke as the son of a master. Flups Mertens, Jakes Clasens and the still life painter Isaac Wigans were his pupils in Antwerp and Antonio Maria Vassallo was his pupil in Genoa. Mix-up of Vincent Malo with other artists The art historian Timon Henricus Fokker suggested in a publication of 1931 that Vincenzo Malo should be identified with the Vincenzo Armanno described in Passeri's book Vite de pittori, scultori ed architetti: che anno lavorato in Roma, morti dal 1641 fino al 1673. The art historian Didier Bodart argued in a 1970 article against this identification. He expressed the view that the Vincenzo Armanno described by Passeri should rather be identified with the Dutch painter Herman van Swanevelt. Bodart compared the biography of Vincenzo Armanno by Passeri with that of Vincent Malo by Soprani. He concluded that the lives of the two persons described in these biographies are completely dissimilar and that Armanno and Malo were clearly two different persons. Moreover, some facts recorded about van Swanevelt's life such as his troubles with the Holy Office in Rome and his specialisation as a landscape painter made him the more likely candidate for identification with Vincenzo Armanno. The matter of the identity of Vincenzo Armanno has still not been resolved with certainty. Vincent Malo has also been confused with the Flemish painter Vincent Adriaenssen who worked for a significant time in Rome. In fact, both painters called Malo (Vincent Malo I and Vincent Malo II) had died before Vincent Adriaenssen. Today it is assumed that Malo mainly made religious and genre works and Adriaenssen painted battle scenes. Works Vincent Malo was a painter of genre scenes and of religious and mythological subjects and occasional portraits. While his early works retain Mannerist traits, his mature works showed a Baroque style close to that of Rubens and van Dyck. He collaborated with other Antwerp painters. He added figures in the land- and