LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



therine is introduced kidinij the feet of the infant Jefiis, 

 after Dennis Calvaert ; " The Death of the Virgin," from 

 Otho-Vaenius ; " Chrift at the Table of Simon the Pha- 

 rifee," after the fame painter, all of folio dimenfions ; 

 " Death and Satan," combating for a tree, while a faint 

 and the holy Virgin are imploring Jefus Chrill to preferve it, 

 after H. van Balen, in oftavo ; " The Globe of the Earth 

 near its Dellnicxion, upheld by .lefus Chrift and the 

 Virgin," in oftavo ; " The oppofite Roads to Heaven, 

 and to the Infernal Regions," in quarto, from the fame 

 painter; " Our Saviour crowned with Thorns," after G. 

 Moftaert, in folio ; " Jefus Chrill on the Crofs, worfhipped 

 by two Angels, in the Clouds," on one tide of the crofs. 

 is introduced the Virgin, and on the other St. John, whilft 

 the Magdalen embraces the crofs; (this is efteemed tlie hnell 

 print from the graver ofjcrom;) "Enoch tranflatcd to 

 Heaven," after M. de Vos, in folio ; " The Death-bed of 

 the Juft," in large folio, from Amb. Franck ; " Jefus 

 baptifed by John," after H. Hondius, in folio, a iiiie en- 

 graving ; " The Vifions of Daniel," after Van Haecht, in 

 quarto ; " Jupiter defcending to Danae, in a Shower of 

 Gold," from the fame painter : a very capital print, after 

 Lucas Romanus, of " The Refurreclion of Chrift," in 

 large foho ; and another, from the fame painter, of " The 

 Scourging of Chrift," whig!) Strutt pronounces one of his 

 largeft and belt engravings, though not^fo neat as his other 

 works. 



Antony Wierix was the younger brother of Jerome and 

 John, and, in general, adopted the fame neat and laboured 

 ftyle of engraving, efpecially when he worked upon fmall 

 fubjefts ; but fome of his larger prints are executed with 

 more freedom ; which, of courfe, adds greatly to their in- 

 tereft, in the eftimation of perfons of tafte. Antony drew 

 as correctly as his brother, and employed his gra%'er upon 

 the fame fort of fubjefts ; often indeed working conjointly 

 with Jerome. We fhall mention the following 



Portraits, (all of which are very fmall,) pope Clement 

 VII. ; Phihp Emanuel, of Lorrain, duke of Mercoeur ; 

 Ifabella, of Auftria, daughter of Phihp II. of Spain; 

 Robert Bellarmin, cardinal ; and Albert of Auftria, arch- 

 bifhop of Toledo, and governor of the Low Countries, in 

 quarto. 



Subje8s from his oiun Compojitions. — Saints " Therefa," 

 in oftavo ; and " Sebaftian," in folio ; " St. Dominic 

 receiving a Rofary from the Holy Virgin ;" " The Virgin 

 Mary ;" and " The Marriage of St. Catherine," both in 

 I2mo. ; " The Litany of the Virgin," in eight leaves, of 

 oftavo fize ; " The Virgm and Child, to whom the eternal 

 Father difplays the Inftruments of the Paftion," in i2mo. ; 

 •' The purified Souls," with French and Latin verfes, in 

 oftavo ; " Chrift furrounded with the Reprefentations of the 

 Sufferings of various Martyrs," in quarto ; "The Emblems 

 of future Rewards and Punilhments," in oftavo ; and " St. 

 Jerom praying, accompanied by two Angels,'' in quarto ; 

 one of the bell engravings by Antony Wierix. 



Engravings from various Painters. — "Abraham facrificing 

 Ifaac," and " The Adoration of the Kings," both in folio, 

 and from M. de Vos. Four plates in quarto, reprefenting 

 the Hiftory of the prophet Jonas. " Refignation,'' per- 

 fonified by a female, faftened to a rock, holding a crucifix, 

 ■while an angel crowns her with laurel, from J. de Backer, 

 in folio ; " A Repofe during the Flight into Egypt," 

 where St. Jofeph is reprefented holding a bunch of grapes, 

 after Cam. Procacini, in folio, executed in a bold broad 

 ftyle ; " The Death of St. Francis," in folio, from the fame 

 painter; asd " The Life of Chrift," towhich is added "The 

 Death and AfFumption of the Virgin Mary," vvithexplana- 

 VoL. XXI. 



tions, forming a fet of fifty-nine prints in folio, engraved 

 conjointly by the three brothers, John, Jerom, and Antony. 

 Abraham de Bruyn, or Brun, was born at Antwerp 

 in the year 1540 ; and eftablifh'-d at Cologn. On account 

 of the finallneis of his prodeftions he has been ranked ia 

 that clafs of artifts, which is diftinguifned by the appellation 

 of the !ilt/f nuiflers, and feems hardly to have merited even 

 the diftinftion which he attained ; for his prints are evi. 

 dcnily rather the produftions of labour ^nd affiduity, than 

 of genius. The lights in them are fcattered and unharmo- 

 ni7,ed, which deftroy the effeft, and give them a cold, me- 

 tallic appearance, and his drawing is incorreft. It is true, 

 Rembrandt had not yet dawned, and inattention to the chia- 

 rofcuro has been termed by the apologills of iuch artifts as 

 Bruyn, " ratlier the fault of the age, than the profefTor ;" 

 and notwithftanding thefe dcfefts, the worksof this artift are 

 much fought after by connoifleurs. The two monograms, 

 which he affixed to his prints, will be found in our fecond 

 plate of thole ufed by the engravers of the Low Countrie* ; 

 and his beft engravings are entitled as follows : 



Portraits of the eleftor palatine, Philip Louis, and Ann 

 his wife ; Albert Frederick, duke of Pruflia ; William, duke 

 of Juliers, and Mary his dtichefs ; John Sambucus, phyfician 

 (a wood engraving) ; " Carolus nonus Francorum Rex ;" 

 and Anne of Auftria. 



Hijiorical, &c. — " Mofes and the burning Bufti," in 

 quarto ; " The Four Evangelifts," " Chrift and the Wo- 

 man of Samaria," and " A Philofopher," with a fcroll, 

 both in oftavo. A fet of feven fmall plates of " The 

 Planets," and another fet of " The Five Senfes ;" a 

 folio print, entitled " Imperii ac Sacerdotii ornatus, diver- 

 farum gentium ve.ftitus ;" another of the fame fize, entitled 

 " Diverfarum gentium armatura equeftris, 1577 ;" a fet of 

 forty-nine, infcribed " Omnium fere gentium imagines," &c. 

 quarto fize. Seventy-fix plates, of figures of knights on 

 hoifeback, in oftavo. A fet of friezes, of the various modes 

 of hunting and hawking, marked with his two cyphers. 

 Twelve plates of animals, in quarto ; " Pyramus and 

 Thifbe," after Franc. Floris ; " The Refurreftion of La- 

 zarus," from Crifpin vanden Broeck, both in quarto ; and 

 a fet of fmall arabefque ornaments. 



Nicholas de Bruyn was born at the fame place with the 

 former artift, of whom he was the fon, and of whom he 

 learned the rudiments of his art ; though he did not imitate 

 him either in his ftyle of engraving, or the fmallnefs of the 

 prints which he executed. He rather copied the ftyle of 

 Lucas Jacobs of Leyden, whofe works he appears chiefly 

 to have ftudied ; and engraved large plates, which he exe- 

 cuted entirely with the graver, in a very neat but laboured 

 ftyle. His prints evidently prove, that he had more fertility 

 of invention than tafte, and he wanted judgment to felcft 

 fuch forms only, as were beautiful or luited to the occafion. 

 His compofitions are generally crowded with figures, but 

 from the following caufes his effefts are feeble ; the lights 

 are too much diffufed, and the breadths of fhadow by no 

 means fufiicient to relieve the principal objefts from thofe at 

 a diftance ; in conlequence of which, the whole appears 

 confufed and unfiniftied. His drawing is carefully attended 

 to ; but it is rather mannered than correft. The heads 

 of his figures are frequently very expreflive ; yet, amidft all 

 the difadvantages which this artift laboured under, much 

 fterling merit is coni'picuous in his produftions. The cy- 

 phers, with which he marked his plates, will both be found 

 in our fecond plate of thofe ufed by the engravers of the 

 Low Countries : and amongft his works we lliall feleft the 

 following as being moft worthy of notice. 



From his own Compojitions. — " Adam and Eve in Para- 

 3 N dife," 



