GERMAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



hrtt he cnjrravca his " Atrumplion of the Virgin," after 

 Philip Champagne, :ind "Crucifixion," after Tt-ftehn. 



Returning to his native city, he continued to cultivate his art, 

 and produced a great many excellent portraits, with fome few 

 liiftorical fubjeits. Strutt is millaken in faying he worked 

 entirely with the graver, but is right in what he alTcrts of 

 the originnlity of Bartholomew's ftyle. He worked in a man- 

 ner entirely different from thofe of the Kilians, who had pre- 

 T:cded him ; fometimes, in order to make a ftriking dilbndlion 

 lietweeu the fie(h and the draperies of his figures, he finiflicd 

 the former with dots only ; and at other times exprcfled the 

 darker Ihadows of his flelh by lines, which he blended with 

 dots in the lighter parts. Mariclte and Barthekmy talk of 

 him as an example for a painter, hut thefc writers arc warmer 

 in his praife than an infpeaion of his work will fully warrant. 

 B. Kilian generally marked his engravings, of winch the 

 following liftlontains the principal, with his name at length, 

 but fometimes ufed only his initials, and at others, accord- 

 iug to Hubcr, a cvpher which does not appear to h.-long 

 to him, but which we have copied, with others of the Kilian 

 iamily, in the fccond plate of our German monograms. 



Six half length portraits, in folio, of celebrated protedant 

 preachers at Auglburg, after B. Hopfer. Three medallions 

 of archbifhops of Salzburg, with allegorical accompani- 

 ments, afLcr Henry Schoenfeldt. Johannes HI. king of 

 Poland, after Bloeniart, dated 1681, a large bull of learned 

 execution. Maximilian Emanuel, eleftoral prince of Ba- 

 varia, -vith hiftorical accefTories, a celebrated work, and the 

 fubjea of a thefis. The emperor Jofeph as king of the 

 Romans, on horfeback, the fubjecl of another academical 

 thefis, da' »-'. 1694; which Hubcr pronounces one of the 

 fineft prints cxilling for natural grandeur ; all thefe are in 

 large folio. The portrait of Auguihis II. Abbas Einfid- 

 leolis, is a large upright folio, dated 1686. 



The bellhilcorical produAion of Bartholomew is a " Ma- 

 donna and Child," a beautiful engraving in large folio, after 

 Cafpar Sing. 



Philippe Kilian was a younger brother of Bartholomew, 

 imitated his llyle, and confined his talents almoft entirely to 

 portraits. He engraved, among many others, the portrait of 

 bis elder brother, whom he never equalled, though many of 

 his works polfefs no fmall portion of merit. _ 



Strutt mentions another engraver of this family of the 

 ■ame of Wolfgang Philip, who fiouriihed in the next cen- 

 tury, and who executed a great number of portraits, which 

 however have too little merit for our parlicuhir notice. 



Yet to (hew that nature had not exhaufled the Kilian 

 ftock of talent, we fliall here mention a little out of hia 

 shroaological place, Pliilippe Andrea Kilian, great nejihew 

 of Bartholomew, who was born at Augfburg A.D. 1 7 14, 

 and died in that city in the year 1759. 



Defcended from a family of artifts, he imbibed, in early 

 life, what may perhaps be termed an hereditary tafle for fine 

 art. He firft. ftudied drawing and engraving under Frederick 

 of Au<rfbi!rg, and afterwards became the pupil of G. M. 

 Prietler of Nuivmberg, where he diitiisguiihed himfelf by 

 engraving fome plates for the " Phyfica Sacra of Scheuch- 

 ser," and laid the foundation of his future fame. 



Some years after, whilll enga^,'ed in engraving from the 

 Drcfden gallery, the reputation of our artill ftood fo iiigh, 

 that Augullus III. of Poland emphatically called him 

 «• the Magnet of Drefdcn," and when any other engraver 

 producedlin inferior plate fro.-n the colleaion, was ufed to 

 lay, in the w.iy of delicate reproof, that it ought to be ic- 

 engrave.i by KiJian. 



Bato.ir artift, notv.-ithftanding thcte honours, felt fo much 

 stftrtait, whilH rcfiding at the court of Dicfden, or fuch 



Paffionate defire to return to his native city, that he fought 

 an occafion to make fuch arrangements as enabled him to quit 

 Bavaria after a refidence of fome years. 



P. A. Kilian is ufually reckoned among the mod meri- 

 torious liiftorical engravers of Germany. On a balis of 

 found drawing, he crcfted rather a fingular ftyle of execu- 

 tion ; he interworked his principal or firll courfe of lines 

 with very delicate ftrokes, which he crofTed with a courfe 

 of lines exceedingly lozenge upon the firft, and fometimes 

 added a third courfe fomewhat more fquarc ; at other 

 times he intc-rworked his fliadows with long {lender feels, as 

 they are technically termed among engravers. But the cha- 

 racfVers of his heads are not equal to his general knowledge 

 of the human figure. 



His bed liiftorical engravings are, " Jefus Chrift at prayers 

 in the Garden of Olives," an upright plate of the folio iize, 

 from a defign of hisown. "The Adoration of the Kings,"after 

 Paolo Veronefe ; " The Woman taken in Adultery," after 

 Tintoret ; and " The Family of a noble Venetian," after 

 Paolo Veionefe, are all large folio plates, executed for the- 

 Drefden gallery. " Mary Magdalen wafliing the Feet of 

 Chrift" is from Nicholas Gralli ; '< The Baptifm of St. 

 Augullin," from ,1. B. Pittoni ; and " Herodias with the 

 Head of ,Tohn tlie Baptift," from Carlo Dolce, are all of 

 folio dimenfions ; " Regina Angelorum," where the Virgin 

 appears furrounded by Angels in Glory, after Bergmuller, 

 and another from the life of the Virgin, after C. T. 

 Scheffler, are a large and highly cfteemed pair of engravings. 

 But perhaps his moft juftly celebrated work is a very large 

 plate ©f " St. Cofmo and St. Damien," after J. Wolfgang 

 B.iumgaertner. 



The beft portraits from the graver of Philippe Andrea, are 

 thofe of Francis I. emperor of Germany, in a coat of armour, 

 after Meitens. And Clemens Re/zonicus Venetus, Pon- 

 tif Max, after G. D. Porta, a pair in large folio. Maria 

 Therefa, queen of Auftria, an upright folio. .lohan Mar- 

 tin Chriftell, from a pifture by P. A. Kilian, himfelf. 

 Chriftoph Henry Andre Geret, after ,1. Romelli. Field' 

 marfhal Curtius Chriftophel Graff von Schidcren, after 

 StraHZ. Ferdinand, duke of Brunfwick, general in chief 

 of the allied army, after Ant. Pefne ; and Godofredns 

 Schnurbein, marked P. A. Kilian, pinx. et fculp. 1750, all 

 of the folio dimenfions. 



George Chriftopher Kilian, another engraver of the fame- 

 family, was living at Augfliurg when Heinnekin pubhnied.-. 

 his " Idee generale d'uno Colleilion complete d'Eliampes,"" 

 and perhaps may be living ftill. 



Ifaac NIajor was born at Frankfort on the Maine in the 

 year 1578, and died in 1630. Difcovering an early in- 

 clination for the arts of defign, he was placed with Roland 

 Savery, under whom he ftudied landfcape painting for a 

 time, but defirous of becoming an engraver, he placed 

 himfelf, for inftruction in that art, with Giles Sadekr. He 

 united etching with the work of the graver, but his works 

 want energy, though they were held in fome eftinution at the 

 time in which he lived. His principal produiflions are, a fet 

 of fix middling fi'/ed landfcapcs, wild fcenes in Bohemia, 

 from Pietro Stephani. A very large landfcape from Row- 

 land Savery, in which St. Jerome is introduced. Another 

 fet of eight mountainous and favage landfcapes in Bohcniia, 

 in large folio, after .ler. Wolf, and an allegorical portrait of 

 the emperor in a car of triumph drawn by eagles and fwans. 

 Chriftopher Jegher was a juftly celebrated engraver on 

 wood, who was born fome time about the year 1590, but 

 the incidents of whofe life are but little known. He efta- 

 bliflied himfelf at Antwerp when he was about thirty years 

 of age, wh?re his extraordinary merit fo llroiigly recom- 

 mended, 



