LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



Condomare, and plenipotentiary to Philip IV. ; fir Thomas 

 Smith, ambatTador to Ruffia ; Mary Sidney, countefs of 

 Pembroke ; Robert Sidney, carl of Lifle, afterwards earl of 

 Leiceller; Henry Wriothefley,earI of Southampton ; Lamo- 

 riil, prince of Gaver, and coimt of Egmont ; Manrice, prircc 

 of Orange, all of quarto dimenfions. Four whole length 

 portrait-i of celebrated dukes of Burgundy, Joim de Valois, 

 i'urnamcd the Litrepid ; Philip dc Valois, furnamed tlie 

 Hardy ; Pliilip the Good ; and Charles t!ie Timid, very 

 rare etchmgs ; the frontifpiece to the works of the lord 

 cliancellor Bacon ; a print, entitled " Vanitas vanitatum et 

 omnia vanita=,'' with four verfts in the Dutch language. 

 " Our Saviour with the Pilgrims on their way to Emmau?," 

 in folio ; and " A Holy Family," where the infant Jefus 

 is reprefented taking a grape from St. Anne, after Ba- 

 roccio, are alfo from the graver of Simon de PalTe. 



The principal engravings of his filler Madehne we have 

 already noticed in our article on En'GLISJI Engraving. Her 

 monograms are inferted in our Plate I. of thofc of the en- 

 gravers of the Low Countries. 



The family of the Galles are more prominent than praife- 

 wonhy in the hiftory of Flemifli engraving. Philip, the firft 

 of that family, was born at Haerlem in the year 1^5;", but 

 refided chiefly at Antwerp, where he publifhcda great num- 

 ber of prints, and where he died in 1612. 



Philip underllood the human figure, handled the graver 

 with facility, and difcovered a fliare of talent, that, if 

 bro\ight into aftion, and kept on the ilretch, might have 

 advanced the arts of his country ; but commerce was the 

 preiiding- deity of the Low Countries, and he alone was 

 eftcemed meritorious who became rich. The prelent writer 

 widies he were not (truck with too much of refemblance in 

 this refpecl; between the Low Countricj at that time, and 

 England at this. 



Galle appears to have facrificed all defire of improvement 

 to the rapid produdfion of thofe fets of mediocre engravings 

 which from the fountains of Holland and Flanders began about 

 this time to flow over the reft of Europe : and in effecting 

 this purpofe he was, unfortunately for the progrefs of art, 

 joined by his own fons, and by the families of Wicrix and 

 Sadeler. Strutt very truly obferves that in all their works 

 we may trace the fame ftiff and formal ftyle, with little va- 

 riation, and without any attempt to add talle and freedom 

 t6 correftnefs of form, or the fnialleft erdeavour to enlarge 

 the compafs, or improve the harmony of chiarofcuro. 



From thefe flight engravings of Phihp Galle, which for 

 the molt part are marked with one or other of the mono- 

 grams, which may be teen in our fccond plate of tlmfe of 

 the engravers of the Low Countries, we felect the follow- 

 ing, as being molt creditable to his abilities, and lead un- 

 worthy of the modern portfolio. 



A fet of fix, of portraits of reformers and other diflin- 

 gnillied characters of the fixteenth century, viz. Martin 

 Luther, John Calvin, Ulrieus Zwinglius, Bilelaldus Pir- 

 cheymer, Dante, and fir Thomas More ; pcdcltrian llatue 

 of the duke of Alva ; portraits of Martin Hem(l<erck, 

 the paint:er, and WiUiam Philandre, a celebrated architect ; 

 all in quarto. A fet of thirty-four from the life of St. 

 Catherine. A fet of fix, in folio, of Sybils, &c. entitled 

 " Jefu Chrifti dignitatis virtutis et eflicientiac prxventus 

 Sybillis X." after Blockland. The Seven Wonders of the 

 World, in folio ; to which, as an ei.hth, Galle added the 

 Amphitheatre of Vefpaftan at Rome, after M. Hemfkerck. 

 A fet of feven battles, from Stradan ; entitled " Medicis 

 familia: ge.tarnm :" iii folio. '* Our Saviour travelling 

 with his two Dilciples to Emmaus," in large quarto, from 

 Breughel 5 "The Death of St. Anue," in large folio. 



from the fame mailer ; « The Holy Trinity,"' a grand 

 compofition, in large folio, froin M. de Vos. This ig 

 eftcemed the belt engraving bv Phihp. " King Solomon 

 fuperintendin* the Building of the Temple of Jerufalem," 

 from Franc. Floris ; "The Sacrifice of Ifaac;" an4 

 " Mutius Sccevola, in the Tent of Porfenna ; ' both from 

 the fame mailer : all in large folio. , 



Theodore Galle was tlie eldell fon of Philip, was bom 

 at Antwerp A.D. 1560, and having learned from hi« 

 father the rudiments of engraving, made a journey to Italv, 

 either with the view of improving himfelf in his art, or with 

 that of rendering the profits of the print trade more pro- 

 duftive or more fecure. At Rome he engraved feveral 

 plate?, but adhered to the ftyle of his father, though fur- 

 rounded by the finelt examples of fuperior art. 



After his return to Antwerp, he continued occafionally 

 to engrave ; but ^rmt-felUng was with him the bufinefs of 

 life, and he publilhed the works of other artifts, as well 

 as his own. His own have the defeits of feeblenefs of 

 chiarofcuro, and Itiffnefs of llyle : yet the following prints 

 from his hand, will (hew, that in neatnefs he excelled hi» 

 father, and was a better draftfraan. 



" Julius Lipfius,'' witli allegorical accompaniments, ex- 

 plained by fix I.,atin verfes ; " St. Jerome," m his caveru, 

 in the aft of adoratiun, both in folio, and of the oval form. 

 A rare and large folio fet of emblems, entitled- " Lites 

 abufus," &c. A fet of fmall plates from " The Life of St. 

 Norbert." A fet of twenty-eight ditto, from "The Life of 

 St. Jol'eph, and that of the Virgin Mary." A fet of thir- 

 teen ditto, entitled " Typus occafionis in quo reccpta com- 

 moda, negiefta vero incommoda perfonata fchemate pro- 

 ponuntur;'' (this is from his own defigns, and is now be- 

 come fcarce.) " The youthful Saviour contemplating the 

 Crofs and Inllruments of his Paffion ;'' " St. John the Evan- 

 gelilt," and " St. Jerome,'" all of oftavo fize; a folio plate of 

 " Count Ugolino and his Sons imprifoned in the Callle of 

 Pifa,'' from the Inferno of Dante, after J. Stradan, a rare 

 print ; " The Roman Matrons befeeching Coriolanus to 

 relent ;" " Tiber refting on his Urn, and the Veftal Tucie 

 receiving Water in a Sieve;'' "Cornelia, the mother of 

 the Gracchii, working with her Women," all of folio fize. 

 A frontifpiece, after Rubens, entitled " Aug. Mafcardi, fil- 

 varum. Lib. IV. ;" and another frontifpiece from Rubens, 

 entitled " Las obras en Verio de Don Francifco de 

 Boria ;" 1654; both of quarto i;zc. 



Cornelius Galle, (commonly known bv the appellation of 

 the elder Cornelius) was the younger of the fons of Philip, 

 -nd was born at Antwerp in the year 1570. He imitated 

 his father's manner of engraving, and followed the fteps of 

 his brother Theodore, though with far better fuccefs as an 

 artilL 



At Rome he refided a confiderable time, and acquired there 

 that freedom, tafte, and corredtnefs of drawing, which are 

 found in his bell works, and render them fa-- moreellimable 

 than thofe of his relatives. He finally fettled at Antwe'rp, 

 and took a fhare in, that confiderable commerce for prints, 

 which was carried on there by the family of Galle. Among 

 other engravings from hi» hand, the following will be found 

 more particularlv worthy of notice. 



Porlraits of St. C.ia'les Borromeus, cardinal and arch- 

 bifliop of Milan, an-oCiagi),"al print, in folio ; Phihp Rubens, 

 father to ttie celebrated painter, ni quarto ; John van Havre, 

 and Mother Anne of Jelns, a Carmelite nun, in folio, both 

 after Rubens; Artus Wolf rt, a painter of Antwerp, in large 

 quarto, from Vandyke ^ Charles I. of England, in an 

 emblematic border, from N. V. Horll. in large quarto ; 

 Henrietta Maria, the queen of Charles L (furroSnded by 

 3 M 3 three 



