210. 210W Entourage by Adam van Noort (Antwerp 1562-1641) The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist oil on panel oil on panel 89.4 x 187.1cm (35 3/16 x 73 11/16in). Provenance Private Collection, Spain Flemish painter and draughtsman, Adam van Noort became a master of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1587. For almost one year, he was the teacher of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and later the one of his son-in-law Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Known for paintings of religious subjects and portraits, he painted a Preaching of Saint John, now in the Rubenshuis, Antwerp (inv. cat. RH.S.001), which may have inspired the present painting.