Gérard Douffet

Gerard Douffet, also known as Doufeet or Duffeit, was a Walloon painter. He was born at Liège in 1594, and studied for some time at Antwerp, Belgium in the school of Rubens, and afterwards in Italy. He composed and designed with good taste, and his historical pictures are much esteemed. 'Pope Nicholas V. at the Tomb of St. Francis of Assisi', 'St. Helena and the true Cross', and two male portraits, are in the Munich Gallery. He died at Liège, Belgium in 1660.