SEGHERS, DANIEL. - Jesuit, painter, b. at Anversa on 6 Dec. 1590, d. there on 2 Nov. 1661.
A pupil in art of his father Pietro and of Jan Brueghel, he attained the rank of master at Anversa in 1611; then, after abjuring Calvinism, he entered the Society of Jesus as a coadjutor brother on 10 Dec. 1614. He also spent a short time in Rome to perfect his very marked talents for painting. He painted chiefly flowers and shrubs, garlands and festoons framing portraits and images painted by other masters (Rubens, van Dyck, C. Schult, E. Quellin, A. van Diepenbeck), with work of great patience and exquisite taste in the interplay of colours, which made him sought after by princes and nobles. He did the same on vases and mirrors. The greater part of his works are scattered among museums and earned him valuable gifts as well as poetic celebrations.