_Pieter Neeffs_ (Flemish: 1577-about 1661).
This eminent architectural painter belonged to a family of
Antwerp artists. He was a pupil of Hendrick Steenwyck the
elder. "He did for the Roman Catholic churches of Antwerp that
which, thirty years later, and with greater talent, a more
flowing brush, and a better understanding of chiaro-oscuro,
Emmanuel de Witte (see 1053) was destined to do for the
Protestant churches of Delft. Neeffs took special delight
in the representation of night scenes, torchlight funeral
services, and the like. Teniers and Velvet Breughel themselves
often assisted him in these small canvases, thus bearing
testimony to the high esteem in which Neeffs was held by his
colleagues" (Wauters, _The Flemish School_, p. 342.)
A group of figures is inspecting a conspicuous Renaissance tomb. Notice
the dogs among the visitors.