The decline of the Antwerp school through the introduction of Italian
mannerisms is illustrated in _Young Tobias restoring Sight to his
Father_ (No. 2001), a fully signed late picture by Jan van Hemessen,
who flourished in that city towards the middle of the sixteenth
century, and in whose art the last traces of the great national
tradition disappear.
[Illustration:
PLATE XIX.—QUENTIN MATSYS
(1466?-1530)