This magnificent etching is a portrait of "Maria Luissa de Tassis", engraved by C. Vermeulen after the painting by A. Van Dyck of 1630. Van Dyck painted in 1630. Antoine Van Dyck, born in 1559 and died in 1641, was a Flemish Baroque painter and engraver. He painted many portraits and was the leading painter of the English court. Cornelis Martinus Vermeulen, a 17th-century Flemish engraver (1644-1708), trained in the workshop of Peeter Clouwet, built his reputation on his portrait engravings and various book illustrations. Maria Luissa de Tassis belongs to the Antwerp branch of the family that developed the first postal system in Europe. She was about twenty years old at the time of this portrait.