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Surname	Van der Voort	Alternative Surname
First Name	Michiel	Initial of Surname	V
Year of Birth/Baptism	1667	Flourished
Year of Death	1737
Biographical Details	He was born, practiced and died in his native Antwerp, spending three years studying in Italy, 1690-93. Like most of his fellow countrymen his work was principally commissioned for an ecclesiastical context though he was responsible also for some imposing baroque portrait busts. It is not clear how the Duke of Argyll’s group arrived in Britain (1). Literary References: Sculpture...Rubens, 1977, 219-42