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Engraving: marked with great precision. His etchings are not ve- and they have apleasing effect. He likewise engraved Engraving. 
at high prices. Adrian a large chi of a ship, called the Royal Sovereign, on ==” 
Van de Veldt, and Karl du Jardin, have likewise execu- two plates, which, when joined, were three feet long, park 
ted many etchings of cattle, which, for tastefulness, by two feet two inches high. He died about the year 
correctness of design and anatomical knowledge, are 1648. . 
next to those of Paul Potter; while those of Berghem, — Faithorne is the next English engraver who merits Faithome 
ich are executed with the greatest spirit and taste, our attention. He was a man of great ius, and 
drawn, are, on acemparison with the being obliged to leave England during civil war, 
those we have just menti very deficient he went to Paris, where he derived great advantage 
and beauty of anatomical detail. There from the instructions of Nanteuil, and on_ his return to 
etchings Cuyp, Stoop, Bamboccio, and his native country, he executed a great number of por- 
possessing in a greater or lesser degree the ex- traits, and several historical subjects in an_ ex! t 
ies which we have mentioned; but on a conside- manner: he worked almost entirely with the graver. 
these, our limits do not permit us to enter. In the early part of his life, he imitated the Dutch and 
however, conclude this account of the Dutch wares agen eg engraving ; wie on Sie SPREE ae 
school, without making respectful mention of an ama- France, he greatly improved it. His best portraits are 
teur whose works display so much genius, and would admirable, and are finished in a free delicate style, with 
artist,—the person we allude to is much force of colour ; his drawing of the human 
is by no means correct nor in a good taste, but as he 
his ; he flou- dedicated so much of his time to portrait. the few histo- 
year 1610. sar ye gee which he has _rical works he has left are not fair specimens of his ta- 
i from the picturesof Adam lents. His portraits are numerous, and not of 
whom he had contracted an intimacy merit, his best ones are very valuable. His son Wil- 
is correct and tasteful; his liam Faithorne many portraits in mezzotinto, 
marked ; the extremities are judicious- which are greatly inferior tothe works of his father. The Mezzotinto 
effect is p and powerful; invention of this method of engraving, which a little Memvig 
Tha pines aresall samechable before this was brought into England, and has been )\¢n'd bY 
since cultivated with so much success, is generally at- pert, 
tributed to Prince Rupert, who, it is Said, one morning 
secing a soldier cleaning his musket, which had been 
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ceived the idea that, by covering the plate with such a 
ined ground, and scraping away the parts where the 
its were required, he might produce the effect of a 
drawing ; and that, having communicated his ideas on 
the subject to Wallerant Vaillant, with his assistance he 
yeaa an ears which, See sort, answered 
“this purpose. e Prince engraved in this way a print 
of an executioner, holding in one hand a coeticend 
tin not been in the other a head, after S letto, dated.1658. He 
this is not so conspicuous. afterwards ved, on a reduced scale, the head of the 
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eee oe, Sl themonarch, Heineken, whom we a prom fliers in- 
few of the nobility. Among the ar- vented by Lieutenant Colonel Siegen, an officer in the 
different times visited England, there service of the Landgrave of Hesse, and that the print 
RO TIN SRD: DERN, PEGS ly in Whicis hia’ peodachd was. tho: peetemih ti the Esters 
of history portrait. most Amelia Elizabeth of Hesse, engraved as early as the 
and Crispin de year 1643,and that Prince Rupert learned the secret from 
fon Houry igo hhim,| and’ brought. it to E land, when he came over 
Vosterman, Hollar, Blooteling, Vander- the second time with King Charles II. 
Gribelin, and Dorigny ; but till the time of the __ Robert White, the scholar of Loggan, born 1645, be- R. White: 
ithorne, who flourished in 1670, the native sides many portraits in black lead on vellum, in which 
limited themselves to maps, cuts, and small he was v successful, has left many engravings of 
portraits, ispieces, and book decorations. His en- 
gravings, respectable, are not equal to his draw- 
ings, He likewise scraped a few portraits in mezzo- 
engraver who merits our attention. He pos- _tinto, which are much inferior to his other engravings. 
talents, as his works sufficiently testify; His son George White, learned the principles of draw- G. White 
numerous, as he led an irregular life, and ing and engraving from his father. His engravings 
ispi and are neatly executed ; but his principal works are in 
and portraits; he also executed a va- mezzotinto, in which he was very successful. He fre- 
subjects, animals, flowers, quently etched the outlines of his portrait before he laid 
i its are very on the mezzotinto ground, which gives much firmness 
: works: these he exe- and precision to his effect. The last portrait we have 
with the graver, in a free open style, of him was Bishop Weston, 1731. 
