LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



three goddtires,) in quarto, from the fame maftcr ; St. 

 Antony, in folio ; and Leopold William, archduke of 

 Aullria ; of the fame dimenfions. 



Hiftorical SubjeHs, t^ttr "various Majiers — "Adam and 

 Eve," from John Baptilla Paggi ; "Venus carcfiing 

 Cupid,'' both in large quarto ; " The Return into Egypt," 

 a circular plate, in large folio, from the fame painter ; 

 " Jefus at the Table of Simon the Pharifee," m folio, from 

 L. Civoli ; " St. Peter baptizing St. Prifquc," from the 

 fame painter, quarto iize ; ' The Virgin arul Infant Jefus, 

 to whom St. Bernard prefents a Laurel Branch and Book,'' 

 in folio, from F. de Vanni ; " Chrift; on the Crofs,'" at the 

 bottom of which is introduced St. Francis and St. The- 

 refa, in large folio ; likewife from Vanni. A landfcape, 

 wherein Venus is reprefented fallcned to a tree, whilft Mi- 

 nerva fcourges Cupid, in quarto, from Aug. Caracci ; 

 «' The Virgin and Child," from Raphael ; " The Entomb- 

 ing of Chrill,'' in an oftagoii, quarto, from the fame mailer ; 

 " A Statue of the Holy Virgin," in a niche, around 

 which children are twining garlands of fruit and flowers, 

 from Rubens ; " Judith beheading Holofernes,'" in large 

 folio, a capital print ; "The Four Fathers of the Church," 

 in folio, from the fame painter ; tliis plate was enlarged, 

 but there are impreflions from it of iis original fize, which 

 are more highly valued by colleftors, and which are known 

 by a black ftreak down either fide : " Progne difcovering 

 the Head of his Son and Wife, after he had eaten their Bo- 

 dies," in large folio ; as a companion to " The Rape of 

 Hippodamia,'' by P. de Bailliu. A naked figure, called 

 " The Colour Grinder," alfo from Bailliu, in folio ; and a 

 print, entitled " Romans et Graecs Antiquitatis Monu- 

 menta, e prifcis Numifmatibus erefta per Hubertum Golt- 

 zium Antv. 1645." 

 ^ A dray-horfe never defcends immediately from the high 



bred racers of Newmarket : but mental endowments are 

 rarely hereditary. Cornelius Galle, the younger, fo called 

 in contradiftinftion to the Cornelius of the preceding ar- 

 ticle, inherited engraving and print-feUing, but not talent, 

 from his father. He was born at Antwerp A.D. 1600. 

 He was educated under his father, and endeavoured to imi- 

 tate his flyle of engraving. His mechanical execution is 

 fometimes tolerable, but his drawing very incorrect. Strutt 

 thinks that he may have wanted the opportunity of ftudying 

 in Italy, as his relations had done : but as thofe relations had 

 enriched themfelves by trade, it is rather to be inferred 

 that he wanted motive or inclination to travel thither. 



The portraits of Cornelius are fomewhat fuperior to his 

 hiftorical works ; and the bell of his portraits are thofe 

 of the emperor Ferdinand HI. ; Mary of Auftria, his 

 confort ; Henrietta of Lorraine ; and John Mieffens, the 

 painter, all in large quarto, and after Vandyke ; a folio 

 plate of Jodocus Chrillophorus Kup de Kupenftein, (a 

 fenator of Nuremberg,) after Anfclm van HuUe; and 

 Oftavius Piccolomini of Arragon, alfo in folio, with 

 a border of fruit and flsiwers, after the fame painter, &c. 

 which latti-r is probably, on the whole, the beft print of the 

 younger Cornelius. 



From his hiftorical engravings, ^the following may be fe- 

 lefted : " A Nativity, with the Angel appearing to the 

 Shepherds," from D. Tenicrs ; " Venus fuckling the 

 Loves," from Rubens ; " The Defcent from the Crofs," 

 from Diepenbeck ; " The Hofpitahty of Baucis and Phile- 

 mon," after J. Vandeu Hoeck, in folio ; '' Job abandoned 

 by his Friends and fcolded by his Wife," after Diepenbeck, 

 im folio ; and a quarto -late from " The Life of St. Do- 

 minic," after Vaiiden Hoeck. 



Hans or John Bol was born at Mechlin in the year 1534, 



and died at Amfterdam in 1593. His inclination leading 

 him to the arts, he wa'; inftruiled in painting by a mafter 

 of no great repute, wliom he foon quitted ; and, going to 

 Heidelberg, aflifted the progrefs of his own improvement 

 by copying the works of eminent arlifts. His fubjefls arc 

 chiefly landfcapes, with animals ; but he likcwjie painted 

 hiftory and miniature with no fmall fuccefs. Wc have by 

 him fome etchings, in a free fpiritcd ftyle, that indicate the 

 hand of a mafter : thcfe he marked with a monogram, which 

 will be found in Plate H. of thofe ufed by the engravers of 

 the Low Countries : and among them are " The Meeting of 

 Jacob and Efau," a quarto circular print ; " The firft In- 

 terview between the Servant of Abraham and Rebecca," of 

 the fame fize ; " The twelve Months of the Year," circular, 

 in 8vo. ; two fets of landfcapes, views in Holland, in 

 4to. ; and a large print, lengthways, rcprefenting an aquatic 

 divcrfion in Holland : a man appfcars in a boat, catching at 

 a goofe, which is faftened to a ftriiig over the river, and a 

 prodigious number of fpeftators arc depicted upon the 

 banks. 



Cornelius Cort was born at Hoorn in Holland, A.D. 

 J 536. After having learned the iirft principles of drawing 

 and engraving, (as Strutt conjeftures, from Coornhaert,) 

 he worked for a time as the afliftant of Jerome Cock, and 

 afterwards travelled to Italy to complete his ftudies. 



At Venice, where he was courteoufly received by Titian, 

 he made a long Hay : fome fay he refided in the houfe of 

 Titian. However this may have been, he engraved from 

 feveral of the piftures of that much admired artift, and no 

 doubt profited by his inftruclion and advice. 



That his mind expanded in this genial climate of art, 

 where Titian ftioiic forth, there is indeed abundant proof to 

 be obtained, by comparing his engravings after that mafter 

 with thofe frigid works after Hem(l<erck, which he produced 

 under the influence of Germany and Jerome Cock. 



He began now to engrave larger plates, in a bolder and 

 broader ftyle than that to which he had hitherto been accuf- 

 tomed ; and removing to Rome, eftabliftied there an academy 

 of engraving, in which feveral meritorious pupils (among 

 whom was Agoftino Caracci) liftened with advantage to his 

 initrutlions, and imitated his example with fo much fuccefs, 

 that Cort may with juftice be reckoned among thofe men of 

 genius who have contributed to the enlargement of the 

 boundaries of the art itfelf. But the career of our artift, 

 though brilliant, was fliort : he died at Rome, in the me- 

 ridian of his reputation, at the age of two-and-forty. 



Cort worked with the graver only, in a bold and m_anly 

 ftyle : his drawing, though fometimes neglected, is gene- 

 rally correft ; and his chiarofcuro improves upon that of his 

 predeceffors. Even in the carclefs paflages of his works, fo 

 much tatle and freedom prevail, and fo many indications of 

 found knowledge, that his negligence muft ever i^e efteemed 

 the negligence of hafte, and ot a too eafy reliance upon 

 the friendlhip of the fpedtator, which he believes he has con- 

 ciliated : not that of ignorance. 



Baftan, in eftimating his merit, praifes with juftice the 

 tafte and lightneis of touch with which he engraved land- 

 fcape, without the affiftaiice of etc'tiing ; and adds, that 

 " he was the beft engraver with the burin, or graver alone, 

 that Holland ever produced:" an encomium which our 

 countryman, Strutt, thinks may be a little overftramed. 



His print of " Chrift praying in the Garden," which is 

 probably engraven from his own compofition, is marked with 

 a fmall inftrument, or utenfil, near the feet of one of the difci- 

 ple.'j. which is ufually taken for a lam^.', und has fometimes been 

 miftakenly attributed to an old mafter who flourifiied in 1509. 

 On other occafions, according to otrutt, he marked his 



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