LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



and " Peace and Charity," with the motto " Pacem ha- 

 bete ;" both of foh'o fize. 



From various Majlers. — " St. John the Baptift preaching 

 in the Defart," a grand compofition, in folio, infcribed 

 G. A. Z. inventor ; " Mofes Itriking the Rock," a large 

 print, lengthways, from Lambert Lombard. A great 

 number of fmall figures are introduced into this print, and 

 they are admirably well executed : the heads are fine, and 

 the drawing very correft. This is confidered as one of the 

 li' beft prints from the graver of John Collaert : it was pub- 

 lilhed by Jerome Cock, 1555, and is marked " Hans Col- 

 laert fecit." " A Satyr purfued by Females," from J. 

 Straden, in folio ; " A female Centaur fuckling her young ;" 

 and " A Centaur nurfing a young Bear," (companion lo 

 the laft ;) " Mars repofing on the Lap of Veims," in 4to., 

 both from the fame painter ; " The Loves of Mars and 

 Venus," in four plates, with Latin verfes, in folio. From 

 Philip Galle of Haerlem. The following prints, for the 

 miflal of Moretus, from the defigns of Rubens, are much 

 fought after by connoiffeurs : i. The Annunciation. 



2. The Nativity, with the Adoration of the Shepherds. 



3. The Adoration of the Ealtern Kings. 4. The Laft. 

 Supper. 5. The Crucifixion. 6. The Refurreftion. 

 7. The Afcenfion. 8. The Defcent of the Holy Ghoft. 

 9. The AlTumption. 10. An Aflemblage of the Saints in 

 Heaven. II. David imploring the Mercy of God on his 

 People, afflifted with the Plague. And, 12. The Tree of 

 Genealogy of the Jewifh Kings ; all in fmall folio. This 

 lall fubjeft is very rare. 



The following are hkewife from the compofitions of 

 Rubens: "Theology," perfonified by a female, holding a 

 flaming torch, on each fide of whom is a Thermes, repre- 

 fenting the old and the new laws. Frontifpiece to The Ec- 

 clefiaftical Hiilory from the Birth of Jefus Chrifl to the 

 Year 1622, wherein Religion is introduced holding a crofs 

 and tiara. Frontifpiece to The Lives of the holy Fathers, 

 by T. Vaders. 



William Collaert was the fon of John, and engraved with 



fome abihty. Of his works we are only acquainted with 



" The Vifitation of Elizabeth," in folio ; and a fet of ten 



y quarto plates for " BuUarum Inaurium, Sec. Archetypi 



Artificiofi," from the defigns of his father. 



Theodore or Dirick Volkart Coornhaert, or Cuerenhert, 

 was born at Amfterdam in the year 1522, and became one 

 of that extraordinary clafs of men, whom the world honours 

 with the epithet of Angular or eccentric wliilft they are 

 living, and rarely knows how to value till they are no more. 

 In other words, Coornhaert was a fl:udious man, of various 

 and extenfive attainments, and vvhofe perceptions and reflec- 

 tions were entirely his own. 



Befide cultivating the arts of defign, he diftinguifhed him- 

 lelf in various literary purfuits ; was a good poet, and at 

 leait an original theologian. In his youth he travelled intc 

 Spain and Portugal ; but the motives or refult of his 

 journey, which was perhaps connefted with fome diplomatic 

 purpofe, have not been afcertained. 



Returning to the Low Countries, he ellabhfhed himfelf 

 asanartill and fcholarat Haerlem, of which city he became 

 public fecretary, and was feveral times fent as ambaflador to 

 the prince of Orange, to whom he addrefied a mamfelto, 

 which has been celebrated, and which was publidied by that 

 prince in the year i ^66. 



But unfortunately for the temporal concerns of our artill, 

 he deemed that religion was an affair between every mdi- 

 vidual man and his Creator, in which no other man had a 

 right to prefcribe tenets of dodlnne or modes of faith. He, 

 moreover, perceiving how the priellhood degraded them- 



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felves by worldly purfuits, had the wifdom or the folly t* 

 maintain, that the channels of fpiritual communication haa 

 become corrupt ; and that without a fupernatural miflion, 

 accompanied by the power of working miracles, no perfon 

 had a right to adminifter in any religious office. 



Such direft heterodoxy could not fail to draw on him 

 violent and f mpaffioned oppofition of the clergy. Both par- 

 ties became heated by difputation. Xhe priefts anathema- 

 tized ; and Coornhaert proceeded,to pronounce that man to 

 be unworthy the name of Chrillian, who would enter any 

 place of public worfliip ; a doctrine which he not only ad- 

 vanced by words, but evinced the lincerity of his belief, by 

 abftaining from all churches, and from all ghoftly commu- 

 nication with both Protellants and Papiils. 



It is neediefs to add, that his deilruftion was now com- 

 plete. After being feveral times imprifoncd, during the 

 progrefs of the controvcrfy, without abjuring his herefies, 

 he fuffered the martyrdom of banifliment, and died at Dcr- 

 goude at the age of 68 years, perfevering in his religious 

 opinions to the laft. 



Coornhaert had, early in life, acquired fome knowledge in 

 engraving, among his various purfuits, and occafionally 

 praftifed that art in the way of recreation, and merely for 

 the fake of the plcafure which he derived from it ; but the 

 pertmacity of his religious zeal having impoverilhed him, he 

 was obliged tn have recourfe to engraving for his fupport. 

 The fubjeAs of his prints are, for the moll part, taken from 

 the facred writings; and his ftyle, though flight, is original, 

 and the feeming refult rather of intuitive feeling than of 

 acquired knowledge. He worked with the graver alone, in 

 a loofe and open ftyle, fo as fomewhat to referable pen and 

 ink drawings. 



Coornhaert fometimes worked in conjunftion with Philip 

 and Theodore Galle ; and it is no fmall addition to his re- 

 putation as an artift, that he was the inltrudor of Henry 

 Goltzius, of whom we have already treated. An edition of 

 his writings was publithed in three folio volumes, 40 years 

 after his death. Whether any complete edition had pre- 

 ceded this, we are unable to fay. 



Our catalogue, which follows, of the works of this ex- 

 traordinary man, is unfortunately very imperfect. We 

 believe, however, that it includes the moll favourable 

 fpecimens of his talents. His plates are generally marked 

 with one or other of the two monograms, which will be 

 found in Plate I. of thofe ufed by the engravers of the Low 

 Countries, " The Defcent from the Crofs," in large folio, 

 after Lambert Lombard, dated 1556 ; " Jofeph explaining 

 the Dream of his Father, in the prefence of his Brethren,'' 

 after Hemfkerck, dated 1549 ; the companion to which is 

 " Jofeph explaining the Dreams of the Prifoners before 

 Pharaoh," dated 1549; both from the fame mafter, in 410. 

 " Job fcourged by the Devil, and fcolded by his Wife ;" 

 " Balaam mal-treating his Afs ;" both in large folio. "The 

 illector of Saxony defeated at Muhlberg by the Emperor 

 Charles V. j" and " The Landgrave of ^Heife CaiTel prof- 

 trate before Charles V.;" all from M. Hemlkerck, of 

 quarto dimenfions. 



Mark Guerard, or Gerard, wai born at Bruges A.D. 

 1^30, and died in England 1590. He was a proficient 

 in the various arts of engraving, architeClure, and painting, 

 both landfcape and hillorical. He alio drew and etched 

 animals with great fpirit, as is evinced in his fables of .£fop, 

 which are from his own co.mpofitions ; and m his fet of 

 eighteen quarto plates of wild and domellic quadrupeds. 



He hkewile delineated and engraved a plan of the city of 

 Bruges ; and a fet of 1 4 oval prints, of the Paffion of Chrift;. 



Of Crifpin Vanden Broeck, and his daughter Barbara, 

 % M wha 



