KETTLEN master Jacob Bus and Wife, Museum, Am- sterdam ; Twelve Archers with their Cap- tain (1588), City Hull, ib. Allgem. d. Biogr.. xv. GG4 ; Immerzeel, ii. 105 ; Kramm, iii. 85G ; Nagler, Mou., ii. 102. KEULEN. See C'euli'x. KEY, ADRIAAN THOMASZ, flourished in Antwerp in 1544-90. Flemish school ; history and portrait painter, nephew of Wil- leiu Key, pupil of Jan Hack ; master of Ant- werp guild in 15G8. Works : Two altar- wings with Last Supper, and portrait of Do- nors (1575), Museum, Antwerp ; Female Portrait, Van Lerius Collection, ib. ; Male do. (1G72), Vienna Museum. Eugerth, Bel- vedere Gill., ii. 222 ; Immerzeel, ii. 10G ; Kramm, iii. 859 ; Nagler, Mon.,i. 357 ; Rie- gel, Beitriige, i. 28 ; ii. 25 ; llooses (Rebel 1 ), 110 ; Van den Branden, 271. KEY, WILLEM, born at Breda about 1520, died at Antwerp, June 5, 1508. Flem- ish school ; history and portrait painter, pupil of Lambert Lombard at Liege ; went to Antwerp, where he became master of the guild in 1542, and dean of the academy in 1552. He was the first portrait painter of prominence at Antwerp after Quinten Mas- sys and Joos van Cleve, and was called to Brussels to paint Cardinal Granvella and the Duke of Alva ; while painting the latter's portrait he accidentally overheard a conver- sation regarding the death sentence of Count Egmont, from which his nerves received such a shock that he died on the day of Egmont's execution. Works : Entombment, Six Collection, Amsterdam ; Elderly Man's Portrait, A Knight of Malta, Portrait of Gil- lis Mostaert, Vienna Museum ; Male Por- trait, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Allgem. d. Biogr., xv. G92 ; Eugerth, Belvedere, Gal., ii. 224; Van den Brandon, 2G7. KEYSER, NICAISE DE, born at Sand- vliet, near Antwerp, Aug. 26, 1813. His- tory and genre painter, pupil of Joseph Ja- cops (born in 1803), and of Antwerp Acad- emy under M. J. van Bree ; completed his studies in travels through Italy, France, Ger- many, and England; painted at first biblical subjects, then acquired reputation with bat- tle-pieces, and finally took up historical genre. Medals : Great Gold Medal, Brussels, 183G; Paris, 2d class, 1840, and medals at al- most all exhibitions in Belgium and Holland ; Order of Leopold, 1839; Officer, 1855 ; Bavarian Order of St. Michael, 1851 ; Order of Lion, 1844 ; Commander of Order of Oaken Crown, 1857 ; Swedish Or- der of the Polar Star ; Wiirtemberg Crown Order ; L. of Honour, 18G2. Member of Brussels (1845) and several other acade- mies. Having settled at The Hague after 1845, he successfully represented the Na- tional Dutch art-faction in opposition to Baron Wappcrs, Director of the Antwerp Academy, whom he succeeded in that posi- tion in 1855. Works : Filial Love (1833) ; Crucifixion (1834); St. Dominick receiving the Rosary (1835) ; Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302 (183G), Courtray Museum ; The Holy Women at Christ's Tomb (183G) ; Battle of Woeringen in 1288 (1839), Brus- sels Museum ; Roman Pifferari at Siesta (1840), Kuusthalle, Hamburg ; Monk sitting at Alms Box in a Cloister (1841), New Pina- kothek, Munich ; Pieta, Return from Ma- [ donna Festival near Naples, Hans Memling in St. John's Hospital at Bruges (1841); The Antiquary (after Walter Scott); The Smith of Naarden ; Italian Robber in Prison pre- paring for Death ; Battle of Nieuport (1844), Battle of Seneffe, King of Holland ; Peter of Amiens preaching the First Crusade in
- 1093 (1845); The Giaour, Death of Maria
de Madid (1845), National Gallery, Berlin ; Rubens painting the Chapeau de Paille (1847), Margaret of Austria and Maria of Burgundy visiting Memling at Bruges, Royal Palace, ib. ; Daughter of Jairus, East 'and West, King of Wurtemberg; Episode in Massacre of the Innocents (1855), Ghent Museum ; Elizabeth of Hungary distributing 384
