Matthijs Musson was a painter and art dealer based in Antwerp, who helped popularize artists of the seventeenth-century Antwerp school

Antwerp school

The Antwerp School is a term for the artists active in Antwerp, first during the 16th century when the city was the economic center of the Low Countries, and then during the 17th century when it became the artistic stronghold of the Flemish Baroque under Peter Paul Rubens.-History:Antwerp took over...

by marketing them throughout Europe. Many of his correspondences have been published, and studies of his business relationships other dealers across Europe have established ideas about the art trade and its economics.