Focus on Tomb of Ferdinand van den Eynde and discuss the Subject.
The funerary monument is an epitaph, or cenotaph, to Ferdinand van den Eynde, a Netherlandish merchant and art collector from Antwerp, who was a member of the Netherlandish colony in Rome. Ferdinand was brother to Jan van den Eynde, a Flemish merchant established in Naples, one of the richest men in the city, and its most prominent art collector. His son, Marquis Ferdinand van den Eynde, became an art collector as well. Ferdinand van den Eynde died prematurely in 1630.
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