DIEPENBECK, ABRAHAM VAN Flem ish painter, was born at Herzogenbusch, in 1599, and died at Antwerp, where he was buried in Dec. 1675. He studied painting at Antwerp as one of Rubens' "Hundred pupils." A solitary cop perplate executed by him in 163o represents a peasant sitting under a tree holding the bridle of an ass, and is a minute and finished specimen of the engraver's art. However, large commis sions for altar-pieces, subject-pieces, and pagan allegories poured in upon him. Most of Diepenbeck's important canvases are in Continental galleries. The best are the "Marriage of St. Cath erine" at Berlin and "Mary with Angels Wailing over the Dead Body of Christ" in the Belvedere at Vienna. Other examples are at Brunswick, Brussels, Berlin, Dresden and Paris. But Die penbeck spent much more of his time on glass-painting, though he failed to master the secrets of gorgeous tinting, which were lost in the century. In 1635 he finished 4o scenes from the life of St. Francis of Paula in the church of the Minimes at Antwerp. In he received payment for four windows in St. Jacques of Antwerp, two of which are still preserved and repre sent Virgins to whom Christ appears after the Resurrection.