(b Antwerp, before 1567; d Antwerp, 1620). Flemish painter and genealogist. After a short career as a courtier and brief military service, de Succa’s name appears in the register of the Antwerp painters’ guild in 1598, immediately following that of Rubens. Between 1598 and 1600 de Succa painted a series of portraits of the ancestors of the Spanish royal family for the Stadhuis, Antwerp (untraced, probably lost when Stadhuis was pillaged in 1799). He also contributed to the illustrated edition of Hadrianus Barlandus’s Ducum Brabantiae chronica (Antwerp, 1600). From 1600 to 1604 de Succa travelled throughout the Spanish Netherlands collecting genealogical information about the former rulers and noble families of Burgundy and the Netherlands. This information is partly preserved in the Mémoriaux (Brussels, Bib. Royale Albert 1er). In 1604 de Succa settled in Antwerp, where he established himself as a painter of historical portraits. Despite a large output, as witnessed by the inventory of de Succa’s estate, no paintings can be attributed to him. Judging from the ...