International colloquium • Flandes by Substitution : Copies of Flemish Masters in the Hispanic World (1500-1700) • Brussels • 9-10 February 2017 International colloquium • Flandes by Substitution : Copies of Flemish Masters in the Hispanic World (1500-1700) • Brussels • 9-10 February 2017 The painter Miguel Manrique, known as Michele Fiammingo in Genoa, was a Flemish artist of Spanish origins who developed his career in Italy and in Spain. Some authors affirmed that he was trained by Rubens in Antwerp. At the end of his life he established himself in the city of Malaga, where he combined his profession as a painter with activities as a merchant and as a moneylender. The little is known about his work in Spain let us suppose that he dedicated a part of his artistic activity there to the production of copies after Rubens’ models. This communication will analyse this little known production and will link it with other copies made by other local artists after baroque Flemish masters, and it will discuss an eventual local production of copies in concurrence or in collaboration with the art dealing houses in Antwerp in the Spanish art market.