LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



dated iy6z ; and"TheBathsof Dioclefian,'' with other views 

 of antiquities executed in conjunftion with Ant. Lafrcri. 



Lambert Suterman, or Suaviu?, was born at Liege, in 

 Flanders, in the year 15 lo, and became the difciple of Lam- 

 bert Lombard, with whom Sandrart confounds him ; but 

 Heinneken has removed all doubt on the fubjeft, proving 

 that Lombard was merely a painter and never uled the graver 

 at all. 



Suavius engraved many plates both from his own defigns 

 and thofe of his niafter. His figures are generally tall and 

 thin ; the outlines of the naked parts of them are tolerably 

 correft, but dry and without dignity. His draperies are 

 generally divided into fniall folds, which by not being fuf- 

 ficiently varied or contrafted with each other, form unpleaf- 

 ing lines. The attitudes of his figures are feldom well 

 chofen, or properly adapted to the fubjeft, and the manage- 

 ment of the liglit and (hade by no means commendable. His 

 ftyle of engraving is very neat, and feems to have been con- 

 trailed in the German fchools ; but his mpce of defign dif- 

 covers more of the Itahan than the German tafte. 



His engravings are numerous, but neither exquifite nor 

 very rare ; we fliall mention the few following 



From Lambert Lombard. — " Charity," furrounded by 

 eight children; "The Refurreftion of Lazarus," both in 

 quarto, dated 1544; " Jefus travelhng to Emmaus, witli 

 his two Difciples," ni folio ; " The Entombing of Chrift,'' in 

 quarto ; " St. Peter and St. Paul healing the Sick ;" " The 

 Defcent from the Crofs," and "Our Saviour refturing the 

 Widow's Son," all in folio ; " Pfyche with the Vafe of Pro- 

 ferpine and Juno," marked with the name of Raphael, in 

 fmall folio. 



From his own Drawings " The twelve Apofiles,'' in 



quarto. Two circular prmts, reprefenting a prolile of our 

 Saviour, and one of the Virgin Mary. A bull of Melchior 

 Schets, in a circle, infcribed " Mundus regitur opinioni- 

 bus," 1561 ; Anna Stralen, " Mel Scheti conjux," 1554; 

 " Michael Angelo Buonarotus, nobilis FlorcnHnus," a circu- 

 lar print ; and a portrait of Cardinal Granvelle, in quarto. 

 All '.he portraits by Suavius are executed in a very delicate 

 ftyle. 



The family of Goltzius were illufirious in art. Hubert, 

 the firft of that name who diftinguilhed himfclf as an en- 

 graver, was the fon of a pamter of Wurtzburg, but was 

 born at Venloo in the year 1520. Under the tuition of his 

 father and of Lambert Lombard, he acquired fome pro- 

 ficiency both in arts and in letters, and, having to copy fome 

 drawings which had been done from the antique, at the 

 houfe of the latter, they excited in him lo ftrong a defire to 

 fee and (ludy from the originals, that he forthwith fet out 

 for Rome. After remaining fome time in that dillinguifhed 

 metropolis, he travelled homeward through Italy, France, 

 and Germany, leaving few of the celebrated works of art, 

 or European monuments of antiquity, unfeen ; and finally 

 edablifhed himfelf at Bruges, where he fucceflively pub- 

 lifhed thofe volumes of medals, infcriptions, and other ob- 

 jefts of antiquarian refearch, coUetled during his travels, 

 which are ftill fought after by the curious ; and where he 

 died in the year 1583. 



Strutt fays, "he was twice married, and the abominable 

 croflnefs and ill temper of his fecoiid wife (ill fuited as 

 a companion to a ftudious man) is faid to have fliortened his 

 days." Mo!l of his antiquarian writings are compofed in 

 the Latin language, and were printed, as well as their en- 

 graved accompaniments, in his own houfe. 



Hubert painted fome few piftures which have been fpoken 

 of with commendation, and are valued for their rarity, but is 

 chiefly known as a raaa of letters" and an engraver. He ob- 



tained the title of painter and hiftorian to Philip II. of Spair, 

 to whom he dedicated, " Fadi Romani ex antiquis nuraif- 

 matibus et marmoribus sere expreffi et illuflrati ;" and 

 " Icones Imperatorum Romanorum, et feries Auftriacorum, 

 &c." both in folio, and printed at Bruges. 



The medals in thefe works are executed in clair obfiure ; 

 and it has fince been copied and reprinted at Antwerp by 

 Balthafar Moret, who has added five medallions from de- 

 iigns by Rubens, in order to bring down the feries to the 

 time of Ferdinand III. 



The manner in which Goltzius produced his prints in 

 clair obfcure, was by firft printing from an outline etched 

 on copper, and afterward impreffing the half tint and deeper 

 fhadows from the furfaces of blocks of wood and with the 

 letter-prcfs. In this manner our artift produced two other 

 works, adorned with numerous engravings by himfelf and 

 .Tofeph Gietleughen of Courtrai, of which the firft, printed 

 at Bruges in 1563, and containing forty-fix prints, is en- 

 titled " C. Juhus Cfefar five hiftorite Imperatorum Caefarum 

 Romanorum ex antiquis numifmatibns reftitutje, liber pri- 

 mus, Huberto Goltzio HerbipoHta Vanloniano AuCtore et 

 Sculptore ;" and the fecond, containing two hundred and 

 thirty-four engravuigs, printed at Bruges in ij66, bears 

 the title of " Failos JVIagiftrorum et Triomphorum Roman- 

 orum ah urbe condita ad Augufti obitum ex antiquis Mo- 

 numentis reftitutos, Hubertus Goltzius Herbipohta Ven- 

 lo\ianus dedicavit." 



Henry Golt/.ius was a man of more genius, though of lefs 

 refearch, than Hubert. His father, John Goltzius, was a 

 painter on glafs, of Mulbrcch, in the neighbourhood of 

 Venloo, where our artift was born ru the year 1558. 



After acquiring fome knowledge in the rudimental part 

 of drawing under his paternal roof, Henry was placed, firft 

 under Jaques Leonherd, and afterward became the difciple 

 of Theodore Coornhacrt, who taught him engraving, and 

 under whofe tuition he foou began to difcover very furprifing 

 talents in that novel and difficult art, notwithftanding the 

 difadvantage of a lame hand, which was occafioned by fall- 

 ing uito the fire during his infancy. 



Goltzius afterwards worked, for a fliort time, for Philip 

 Gallc, but ii! confequence of domeftic troubles and an ill 

 ftate of health, occafioned partly by his too clofe profcfTional 

 application, was advifcd to travel. His defire of improve- 

 ment coinciding with his medical advifers, he pafled through 

 Germany into Italy, vifiting Bologna, Florence, Naples, 

 Venice, and Rome, frequently alFuming a feigned name, that 

 he might with the lefs interruption apply himfelf to the 

 ftudy of the antique and \\ie grand giijlo of Michael Angelo. 

 Now was the time when whal the profeftbr Fufeli terms 

 the " frantic pilgrimage" of artills to Italy, raged with cru- 

 fading zeal, and no painter in the eftin^ation of the hyper- 

 critics, might be confidered as pcrfeft in his art, who had not 

 trembled before the Laft Judgment of the terrible Michael 

 Angelo; moderation in ftyle, was infeiifibility ; and Golt- 

 zius himfclf, though a man of difcernmcnt, became in fefted 

 to a certain degree with the falhiouable bombaft. 



In the genial climate of Italy his health returned, and at 

 Rome he remained for fome years, producing there feveral 

 very excellent engravings from Raphael, Polidoro, and other 

 eminent mafters. He finally returned to the Low Coun- 

 tries, and eftablifiied himfelf at Haerlem, where he engraved 

 many plates, of which the fubjeCts conlift partly of his own 

 corapofitions, and are partly taken from the drawings which 

 he copied from celebrated works of art during his refidence 

 in Italy, where, in 1617, he died at the age of fifty-nine years. 

 He married a widow lady of Haerlem, whole fon James 

 Maetbam (the fruit of a former marriage) became (as we 



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