or MESSIS, QUINTIN, an eminent painter, styled from his original vocation "The Blacksmith of Antwerp" was born in that city in 1460. At the age of twenty, according to the ordinary account, he became passionately attached to the daughter of a painter; and on being informed that her father would bestow her hand upon none but an artist, he resolved to acquire that qualification, and accordingly abandoned his trade. His first painting, it is said, was a portrait of his mistress, which raised him at once to the rank of a successful suitor and an eminent artist. He died at Antwerp in 1529. The paintings of Matsys, though rather hard and dry, are finished in their style and vigorous in their colouring. Some of his heads were thought by Sir Joshua Reynolds to be equal to those of Raphael. His masterpiece is the picture of the "Two Misers," now seen at Windsor.