PAUL, a Flemish painter, born at Antwerp in 1554. The success of his elder brother Matthew, in the Vatican, induced him to repair to Rome. Paul far surpassed his brother, and on his death he succeeded to his pension and employments. He painted landscapes with a depth of chiar-oscuro then little practised in Italy; and introduced into them figures well drawn and finely coloured. Many of his pictures are extant in Italy. One of his best compositions is the martyrdom of St Clement, in the Sala Clementina of the Vatican. He died at Rome in 1626. (Lanzi, Stor. P.)