GERMAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



SyLilk. Tlie- fupplement was liowevcr publifiied by her fe- 

 cond daughter Dorothea Maria, who was born in 1678, and 

 hcrfelf painted flowers and infeds with great ability. 



TI.e curious, wlio would form an adc<iuate idea of the 

 knowledge and talent of this extraordinary artill, fhould vifit 

 the principal cabinets of Holland. Yet in our own nation- 

 al colleaiun at the Britilh mufeuni, are fome volumes of 

 her paintings on vellum, which are almoft. daily tiuned over 

 with wonder by its numerous vifitants. 

 ' John William Baur was a very meritorious painter and 

 engraver of landfcape and hiilory. He was born at Straf- 

 botirgin the year i6co, (ludied imder Frederic Brendel,and 

 afterwards in' It;Jy, where he relided a conliderable time, 

 aud where he was patroni/.ed by tlie duke at Bracciano and 

 prince Guilliniani. In the year 1 63 7 he removed to Venice, 

 and from thence to Vienna, and died there throe years after- 

 wards, at the age of forty. 



The landfcapes which lie painted with water colours on vel- 

 lum are particularly celebrated, and he engraved a vaft aujn- 

 ber of plates from his own defigns, fome of which are in a 

 ilyle refembling that of his contemporary Callott, to which 

 he affixed the cypher which the reader will find in the third 

 plate of our monograms, &c. of the Germsn fchool of en- 

 gravers. 



Melcljior KuITell completed the volumeof his works, wliich 

 sontains not lefs than five hundred engravings, after the death 

 of Baur, whofe " defigns," in the language of Strutt, 

 " manifelt great marks of a fuperior genius, but without 

 cultivation." The cvpher with which he ufually marked his 

 engravings, of which the following are the names of the 

 pnncipal, will be found in our plate of monograms. 



Portrait of Don Paolo Geordano II ; Orfmo, duke de 

 Bracciano, an oval, dated 1636, a rare print; a fet of 

 eighteen, of the collume of different nations ; a fet of 

 fifteen of the battles of various nations, entitled " Capr'icl di 

 varie Baittallie," in quarto ; another fet of fourteen battles ; 

 a fet of eight landfcapes, and another of four, entitled " The 

 Elements." A fet of twenty of a fuperior charafter, of 

 the battles of " La Guerre Belgique," and 



His principal work, confiding of one hundred and fifty 

 plates in quarto, from Ovid's metamorphofes, pubhfhed at 

 Vienna in 1641. Thefe are flightly etched, and finifhed 

 with the graver. The figures introduced are generally fmall 

 and incorreft in the drawing, the back-grounds rather dark, 

 and the trees deficient in lightnefs and freedom. The arclii- 

 tedure, which Baur is fond of introducing, is well defigned, 

 and corred in the perfpedive. 



Hans or Jean Ulric Franck was a native of Kaufbeuren, 

 an imperial city of Suabia, born in 1603, and was particu- 

 larly excellent in painting and etching fmaU figures. He 

 fettled at Augiburg, where he died in the year 1680. 



In conjundion with Sufan Sandrart, A. Zelt and J. 

 Meyer, Franck engraved a fet of the Fountains in Rome 

 and its environs. The beft of his other engravings are four 

 combats iu quarto, dated 1643. '• David and Abigail," 

 a«d " Alexander defeating Darias,'' dated 1644, and both 

 HI folio. 



Joachim Sandrart was born at Frankfort on the Maine in 

 the year 1606, and began his career of art by fludying under 

 Theodore de Brie and Matthew Marian, of whom we have 

 fpoken. At the age of fifteen he went on foot to Prague, 

 to viiit and obtain inilru&ion from Giles Sadeler, after 

 -which he placed himfelf under Gerard Honthorfl, of Utrecht, 

 to learn the principles of painting, with whonj he travelled 

 to England. He afterwards vifited Venice, Bologna, 

 Naples, and Rome, and received inftrudions from Titian, 

 Paul Veronefe, Guido, Guercino, PoufTui, and others : in 

 ilwrt, if inftjudion and example alone CJidd have producd a 



great artift, Joachim fhould have been the full of his tinsf. 

 He returned however to Germany, and finally fettled at Nu- 

 remberg, where he eflablifhed an academy of art, and where 

 he died ten years afterwards, at the age of 77. 



Sandrart was rather an artiil of acquirement than of genius, 

 and hence his works are deficient in vividnefs and warmth. 

 He painted and engraved hiilory and portrait ; he was alfo a 

 man of letter;?, and his " Academy of Architedure, Sculp- 

 ture and Painting," which was firll publifhed at Nuremberg 

 in the year 1 679, though prohx, is llill celebrated through 

 EHrope. 



This book, which contains much hiftorical information, 

 and the biography of the mofl diilinguiflied artifls, is enrich- 

 ed with a confiderable number of engraved portraits, befide 

 otlier prints. It was firlt publifhed in the German langp.iage, 

 but an edition in Latin was printed in the year 1 683, and it 

 has fincc received various additions from the fuccefTors of 

 Joachim Sandrart. 



His own engravings are performed chiefly with the point, 

 and the boil of tliem will probably be found .to be a half 

 length figure of tke goddefs Flora, after Titian ; an elderly 

 woman contemplating a Cupid in no very delicate adion : 

 and " The Death of Cleopatra,'' from his own compofitions, 

 all in quarto. 



Jacques Sandrart, the nephew of .Toachim, was born at 

 Frankfort in the year 1630, and died at Nuremberg in 

 1708. He fludied engraving at Amfterdam under Cornelius 

 Dankcits, and afterwards at Dantzic under W. Hondius. 



He fettled finally at Nuremberg, where he purfued his. 

 art with fingular induftry, the number of his portraits alone 

 being not fewer than foui- hundred, fome of them of the folio 

 dimcnfions, and executed with the graver alone, in a clear and 

 neat flyle, befide which he publifhed a number of geogra- 

 phical charts and other engra\ings. 



His portraits are not uncommon, and among the mofl me- 

 ritorious will be found to be thofe of his uncle Joachim 

 Sandrart, a half length figure, infcribed " Seculi Noftri 

 Apelles. 'The bulls of Rodolphus II., Ferdinand II., Fer- 

 dinand III., and Frederic, prince of Norwegia and duke of 

 Slefwic ; a half length of Hohannes Michael Dclherrus, 

 after R. Wernfch ; Ermuth Sophia, eledoral princefs 

 of Saxony, &c. Johannes Paulus Aucr, painter of Nu- 

 remberg ; Joachim Sandrart, junior, dated 1688 ; all in 

 foho. 



Jean Jacques Sandrart, the fon of Jacques, whom we 

 havejufl difmifTed, was bom at Ratifbon A.D. 1655, and 

 died at Nuremberg in 1698. He fludied the arts of defign 

 under his father and his gretit uncle Joachim ; his works 

 prove the facility of his invention. He enriched tlie volumes 

 of Joachim with feveral tafteful and fpirited etchings, and 

 his portraits, which are etched, and finifhed afterwards with 

 the graver, are defervedly held in efleem. His beft works 

 are, the portraits of Elizabeth Henrietta, princefs of Bran- 

 denburg, furrounded by emblems ; and Silvius Jacob de 

 Dunkelmann, both in folio, after Adam le Clerck ; "The 

 Holy Family," after Joachim Sandrart ; " .£nea3 faving 

 his Father from the Flames of Troy," after Raphael, dated 

 1682. " Marphorius, or the Statue of the Rhine," among 

 ruined edifices ; " The Nile" among ruined monuments of 

 antiquity, all in folio, and the latter pair, with many others 

 after Joachim, are introduced into his " Academy, &c." 



Jean Jacques alfo engraved feveral plates of merit for a 

 foho work,5ntitled " Suecia Antiqua et Hodicma." 



Sufan Marie Sandrart was t'.ie fitter of Jean Jacques, and 

 was born at Nuremberg in the year 1658. She fludied 

 under the diredion of her father, and engraved with fome 

 ability a confiderable number of plates of ornaments. 



She engraved alfo a Bacchanal, with the infcription " Im. 



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