LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



parently educated in the fchool of the Galles, but of his 

 birth or death there is no record, though his principal work 

 was executed in 158 1. He engraved on copper, but his 

 objefts are ill drawn and tallelefsly executed. Great part 

 of the figures in " Habitus Variorum Orbis Gentium," 

 publilhed b)' BoilTard, is from his hand, as are alfo " The 

 good and bad Shepherd," from Martin de Vos, and " Chrill 

 appearing to Mary Magdalen," after Fred. Sucaris. 



Henry Van Cleve, or Cleef, alfo called CUvenJis, was 

 born at Antwerp in the year 1520, and died in the fame 

 «iry in 1 S89. He was the broiher of Martin van Cleef, 

 whom Val'ari confounds with Martin Schoen. He ftudied 

 in Italy, and befidc his proficiency in engraving, became an 

 excellent landtcapo painter, poircffing great freedom of 

 touch, and producing an harmonious chiarof-curo. Upon his 

 return to his native city in Hjs, he was elefted a member 

 of the Antwerp academy of painters : he likewife engraved 

 A great number of plates, which he fonietimes marked with 

 the monogram, which will be found in our firll plate of 

 thofe ufed by the engravers of the Low Countries ; and at 

 others, with " Henricus Clivenlls fecit." 



Among his works the following will probably be found 

 moil worthy of feleftion. A bull fight, exhibited at Rome, 

 before the Farnefe palace, in folio. Two landfcapcs and 

 figures, in folio. A fet of fix landfcapes, intitlcd, i. Veneris 

 Templum. 2. Forum iEmilii. j. Teinplum Fortunse. 4. Ca- 

 loris. 5. Cataraftes Tiburti. 6. Corfu Infula. H. van 

 Cleef fee. Ph. Galle exc. in folio. Another fet of land- 

 fcapes : I. View of abridge at Segovia. 2. A promon- 

 tory at Campania. ^. The tomb of the Horatii. 4. A 

 view on the lake of Aricia, m folio. There is alfo a col- 

 ieftion of thirty-five views by this artilt, publifhed under 

 the title of " Henri a Cleve ruinarum ruriumquc aliquot 

 delineationes executas, per Galleum," in folio. 



Of his brother Martin van Cleef we know very little, 

 and of his engravings nothing, excepting that proftiTor 

 Chrill fays, they were marked with a monkey feated, with 

 the letters V. C. upon its body, in the manner reprefented in 

 our Plate I. of the monograms, &c. ufed by the engravers 

 of the Low Countries. 



A monkey it feems, which in England is nicknamed 

 Jacko, is called Martin in Flanders : combined with the 

 initials of Van Cleef, it therefore formed a kind of pun ; 

 and the age in which thefe engravers lived, is known to 

 have been a time when puns were fashionable, and paffed for 

 wit. Martin van Cleef, fometimes miftaken for Schoen, is 

 the real Martin of Antwerp, of Vafari, and thofe Italian 

 writers who have copied his errors. 



Adrian Collaert, the elder, an artift of great merit, and 

 likewife a printfeller, was born at Antwerp A. D. 1520. 

 He became acquainted with the rudiments of his art in his 

 native country, but made a journey to Italy, where he re- 

 fided foine time in order to perfeft himfelf in his profefiion. 

 He worked entirely with the graver in a firm and neat ftyle, 

 but fomewhat ftiff. His malTes of hght are rarely well 

 managed, or flcilfully blended with his demi-tints, and from 

 being too much fcattered and withoHt the neceffary gra- 

 duation, he rarely produced even a tolerable chiarofcuro. 

 But to compenfate thefe defefts (which may, in part at 

 lead, be afcribed to the age in which Adrian lived), he drew 

 with great ability. The heads of his figures are frequently 

 beautiful and charadlerillic, and the other extremities well 

 marked. 



The engravings of the elder Collaert are fomewhat nu- 

 merous, and are generally marked with a cypher, for which 

 fee our fii-ft plate of thofe ufed by the engravers of'the 



Low Countries. We feleft from them the following, be- 

 ginning with thofe which are done 



Prom his own Compoftl'wns — A man and his wife con- 

 dufted by Death, dated 1562, in l2mo. An armed 

 warrior, to whom a feinale prefents a dog, a child, and a 

 cock. The four elements, with a verfe in Latin under 

 each, in 8vo. A lit of thirty-fix prints, in 1 2mo., en- 

 titled " Vita Jefu Salvatoris variis iconibus, ab Adriano 

 Collaert exprelTa." A fet of thirty, in 4to. entitled " Avium 

 vivae iconcs in aere incific et edita: ab Adriano CoUardo." 

 One hundred and twenty-five fubjedls, entitled " Pifcium 

 vivse icones." Another fet, entitled " Florilegiumab Hadri- 

 ano Collaert cielatum, et ab Piiil. Gallo editnm ;" in 

 twenty-four 4to. plates. A large folio plate from the 

 " Lall Judgment" of Stradan. " St. Anthony tormented 

 by Devils ;<' and " St. ApoUonius," furrounded by fubjedls 

 from his life, both of folio dimenfions. 



From 'various Majtcrs. — The twelve months of the 

 year, from Jofliua of Momper, of 4to. fize : tlie fame 

 fubjeils were copied by Callot. A fet of twelve beautiful 

 horfes in various attitudes, from Stradan, 8vo. plates, en- 

 graved very delicately. A fet of chaces and fifiiing parties, 

 from Stradan, in 4to. Four fine landfcapes from H. van 

 Cleef, entitled " Regionum rurium varii atque amoeni pro- 

 fpeftus." A fet of hermitcires, from M. de Vos, in the 

 engraving of which, Adrian was affifted by his fon, 410. 

 fize. " The Ifraelitifh Women finging the Pfalm of Praife 

 for the Deftrudlion of the Egyptian Hoft in the Red Sea," a 

 4to. plate from Stradan ; " Maternal Love," prefumptively 

 a fatirical print, its real fubjcd being a woman tearing her 

 child to pieces with the fury of a lion, in 4to. from the 

 fame mailer ; " The Vocation of St. Andrew," from Baroc- 

 cio, in folio. This fubjeft was likewife engraven by 

 G. Sadeler. " The Myflcry of the Mafs," from Th. Ber- 

 nard ; " A Repofe during the Flight into Egypt," where 

 St. Jofeph is reprefented gathering grapes, from H. Golt- 

 zius, dated 158). The Annunciations of Ifaac, Sampfon, 

 St. John the Baptift,.and our Saviour. St. Jofeph, and the 

 Angel of the Shepherds, from the fame mafter, ij86, all 

 of folio dimenfions. Thefe laft fix plates are reckoned thp 

 bell engravings of Collaert. 



Hans, or John Collaert, the fon of the preceding attill, 

 was born at the fame place, in the year 1 540. He learned 

 the elements of art of hia father, but afterwards went to 

 Italy for improvement. He affifted his father in mod 01 

 his larger works, befides engraving a great number of plates 

 himfelf ; which he did in a ftyle very much refembling that 

 of Adrian. He muft have lived to a great age, for his 

 prints are dated from ij'jj to 1622. He marked his 

 plates with his initials, combined in a cypher, which will be 

 found in our firft plate of thofe ufed by the engravers of the 

 Low Countries, and fometimes his name at full length. 

 Among his works we fhall fpecify the following, beginning 

 with thofe 



From his own Compofitions. — Ten fubjefts in 410. dated 

 1 58 1, entitled " Monihnm Eullarum mauriumque artifi- 

 ciofiflimK Icones Joannis Collaert opus extremum." The 

 hiftory of St. Francis, in a feries of fixteen plates, with 

 grotefque ornaments, in 410. " A Chrift," accompanied 

 by two other half-length figures, perhaps intended for 

 Mofes and Elias, in an ornamental border ; " A Dead 

 Chrift; on the Lap of the Virgin," infcribed " Torcular 

 Calcavietc. Joan Collaert fculp. ;" " The Laft; Judgment," 

 furrounded with fmall fubjefts from the life of Chrift, in- 

 fcribed, " Hunc veniant jufti, etc." all of folio dimenfions ; 

 "Marcus Curtiu* precipitating himfelf into the Gulf;" 



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