COQUES or COCX, GONZALEZ (1614-1684), Flemish portrait painter, son of Pieter Willemsen Cocx, was born at Ant werp on Dec. 8, 1614. At the age of 12 he entered the house of Pieter, the son of "Hell" Breughel, an obscure portrait painter, and later became a journeyman in the workshop of David Ryck aert the second. At 26 he matriculated in the gild of St. Luke; he then married Ryckaert's daughter, and in 1653 joined the literary and dramatic club known as the "Retorijkerkamer." He became president of his gild in 1665, and in 1671 painter in ordinary to Count -Monterey, governor-general of the Low Coun tries. He married again in 1674, and died full of honours in his native place on April 18, 1684. Partnership in painting was com mon amongst the small masters of the Antwerp school; and it has been truly said of Coques that he employed Jacob von Arthois for landscapes, Ghering and van Ehrenberg for architectural backgrounds, Steenwi j ck the younger for rooms, and Pieter Gysels for still life and flowers; but the model upon which Coques formed himself was Van Dyck, whose sparkling touch and refined manner he imitated with great success.