* Gabriel Metsu, 1629 – 1667, painter.

In 1648 Jan Steen and Gabriel Metsu founded the painters ' Guild of Saint Luke at Leiden.

The Poultry seller by Gabriel Metsu, 1662

The presence of the partridge dogs had been visible for centuries, as in the 17th century painting The Hunter's Present, c. 1658-60, by Gabriel Metsu.

Meissonier became known as the French Metsu, a reference to the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Gabriel Metsu, who specialised in miniature scenes of bourgeois domestic life ; " grandiose history paintings did not sell as readily as smaller canvases such as landscapes or portraits, which fitted more easily onto the walls of Paris apartments ".

His small-scale paintings with carefully mannered colouring and precise detailing recalled the work of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painters such as Gabriel Metsu ( 1629 – 1667 ), Willem van Mieris and Gerard ter Borch ( 1617 – 1681 ), of whose work Boilly owned an important collection.

* Gabriel Metsu ( 1629 – 67 )

The collection includes paintings by Francesco Francia, Filippino Lippi, Hans Memling and Gabriel Metsu and portraits by the English painters Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney and John Hoppner.

Like the Belgian painter and friend with whom he stayed in Paris, Florent Joseph Marie Willems ( 1823-1905 ), Stevens carefully studied works by painters such as Gerard ter Borch and Gabriel Metsu.

He made his debut at the Brussels Salon in 1842 with a Music Party and an Interior of a 17th-century Guard-room in the style of Gerard ter Borch and Gabriel Metsu.

( 1974 ) Gabriel Metsu ( 1629 – 1667 ) a Study of His Place in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age.

* Gabriel Metsu in the Rijksmuseum

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1870, as well as works by Cornelis Coedyk, Gabriel Metsu, Gerard Dou ( a triptych of genre scenes bought for Fl.

Gabriel Metsu, The Sick Child ( c. 1660 ).

* Another is that the minor character Gabriel Grub from The Pickwick Papers was worked up into a more mature characterization ( his name stemming from an infamous Dutch miser, Gabriel de Graaf.

Other possible allies – the Dutch Republic, Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and the Republic of Venice – sent letters saying they would not be able to offer Frederick assistance if he accepted the Bohemian offer ; only Gabriel Bethlen offered words of encouragement.

Carel Gabriel Cobet ( 28 November 1813 – 26 October 1889 ) was a Dutch classical scholar.

An example of an intimately expressed portrait is Gerard Ter Borch's Portrait of Petronella de Waert, while animal painting, one of the most characteristic Dutch genres, is represented by Gabriel Metsu's Dead Cockerel.

The Brethren spared no pains to obtain good masters, if necessary from foreign countries, for their schools, which became centres of spiritual and intellectual life of the Catholic Church ; amongst those whom they trained or who were associated with them were men like Thomas à Kempis, Dierick Maertens, Gabriel Biel, Jan Standonck ( 1454 – 1504 ), priest and reformer, Master of the Collège de Montaigu in Paris, and the Dutch Pope Adrian VI.

Gabriel Marcelis ( the elder ), a Dutch merchant with close ties to the Danish crown, took over operations in 1641 and invested in a double blast furnace that produced nails, iron parts, bullets, and cannon balls.

The Danes meanwhile sent a fleet of five sail under Gabriel Kruse to demand a toll from the foreign whalers and in doing so assert Christian IV's claim of sovereignty over the region, but both the English and Dutch rebuffed his efforts — two ships from Bordeaux chartered by a merchant in San Sebastian were also sent away by the Dutch.

1515-July 8, 1583 ) was of Dutch descent and was the son of organ builder Gabriel Raphael Rottensteen.

* Stone-Ferrier, L. ( 1989 ) Gabriel Metsu's Vegetable Market at Amsterdam: seventeenth century Dutch market paintings and horticulture.

* Gabriel Gifford ( 1554 – 1629 )

In the next decades, the princes of Transylvania, among them Gabriel Bethlen ( 1613 – 1629 ), made several unsuccessful attempts to unify Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia.

Gabriel Bethlen ( de Iktár ) (,, ; 1580 – November 15, 1629 ) was a king of Hungary as Gabriel I ( 1620-1621 ), prince of Transylvania ( 1613 – 1629 ), duke of Opole ( 1622 – 1625 ) and leader of an anti-Habsburg insurrection in the Habsburg Royal Hungary.

During the rule of Transylvanian Prince Gabriel Bethlen ( 1613 – 1629 ), the city became an economic role model city in the southern regions of the realm.

* Gabriel Bethlen ( 1580 – 1629 ), Prince of Transylvania between 1613 – 1629 ;

* Gabriel Gifford ( 1554 – 1629 ), Catholic Archbishop of Reims ; also known as William Gifford

* Gabriel de Sainte-Marie ( 1623 – 1629 )

* 1988 – Ricardo Gabriel Álvarez, Argentine footballer

* 1845 – Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1921 )

* 1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.

* 1918 – Gabriel Axel, Danish director

* 1975 – Gabriel Soto, Mexican actor

* 1978 – Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

**** House of Bourbon-Braganza ( 1752 – 1979 ), also called Borbón y Braganza or Branch of the Infant Gabriel

* 1922 – President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.

* 1752 – Gabriel Duvall, American jurist, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( d. 1844 )

* 1869 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz ( d. 1923 )

* 1750 – Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer ( b. 1671 )

* 1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is announced the first president of Poland.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736 ) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer ( 1709 ) and the mercury thermometer ( 1714 ), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

* 1986 – Gabriel Paletta, Argentine footballer

* 1880 – Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer ( d. 1973 )

* 1989 – Gabriel Obertan, French footballer

* 1950 – Peter Gabriel, English musician ( Genesis ), composer and humanitarian

* 1600 – Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar ( d. 1653 )

* 1953 – Gabriel Rotello, American television documentary producer

Fahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 1686 – 1736 ).

* George Gabriel Stokes 1819 – 1903 ( England )

* 1923 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz ( b. 1869 )

* 1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel de Montgomery.