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ANTWERP, the most northern of the nine provinces of Belgium. It is conterminous with the Dutch frontier on the north. Malines, Lierre and Turnhout are among the towns of the province. Its importance, however, is derived from the fact that it contains the comme ...

... n an appendix to those of St Francis, in the Annalfs Minorum of Luke VV adding (Antwerp, 1623), and are also reproduced by Horoy, Medii aem bibliotheca patristica (1880, vi. pp. 555 et sqq.) ; see art. " Antonius von Padua " in Herzog-Hauck, Reafencyklopadie.

... fast Lough. Population and Administration. — The population in 1891 was ANTRIM— ANTWERP 208,010, and in 1901, 196,090. The county is among those least seriously affected by emigration. Of the total about 50 % are Presbyterians, about 20 % each Protestant Episc ...

... elating to the Netherlands the same year, and in 1793 attending the congress at Antwerp. He retired from the public service in the latter year, received a pension of £2300, and was created Baron Auckland of West Auckland, Durham, in the English peerage. During ...

DAVID TENIERS, the elder (1582-1649), v/as born at Antwerp. Having received his first training in the painter's art from his brother Juliaen, he studied under Rubens in Antwerp, and subsequently under Elsheimer in Rome; he became a member of the Antwerp gild o ...

... buildings, the Rathaus (town-hall), built in 1574-1576, on the model of that of Antwerp, with a lofty tower, and containing an interesting collection of arms and armour, is particularly remarkable. There are numerous educational institutions, including classic ...

... ndrt Orient (Ghent, 1857, 1860); Inscriptions fun. et man. de la prat. d'Amers (Antwerp, 1857-1860); Chwolson, Achtzehn hebraische Crabschriften aus der Krim (1859); ]. Brown, Epitaphs, 6fc., in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh (1867); H. I. Loanng, Quaint, Cu ...

... ubeck-Venice .... Hamburg— Triest .... Hamburg— Venice .... Hamburg— Genoa .... Antwerp-Venice .... Antwerp-Genoa .... Antwerp-Marseilles ;> Calais-Genoa .... Calais-Marseilles .... Havre-Marseilles .... Bordeaux-Cette .... Calais-Constantinople . Calais— Salo ...

... died at Brussels in 1881. He was a member of the academies of Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp, St Petersburg and Amsterdam. Examples of his art are to be found in nearly all the important galleries of Europe and the United States, notably hi Brussels, Antwerp, Amste ...