LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



on the folly of thofe people who fpend their time and 

 money in purfuit of pleafure, on two large plates ; " The 

 Ereftion of Babel, and Confufion of Languages,'' in large 

 folio ; » The Adoration of the Trinity," in folio ; " The 

 Judgment of Midas," in large folio ; " The Prodigal Son," 

 a very fine print, in large folio, all from Karl van Mander ; 

 "The Crucifixion," a grand compofition ; and " The Ap- 

 ple of Difcord thrown among the God?,'' both in large fo- 

 lio, and after Vanden Broeck. A fet of four, in circles, 

 of the Evangelifts, after H. Goltzius, in quarto • " The 

 Empire of Neptune,'' a circular print, in folio, after Guil. 

 Telcho. A fet of twelve, reckoned among the very bell of 

 the engravings of our artift, of the g-uards of the em- 

 peror Rodolphus II. after Henry Goltzius; "The An- 

 nunciation," after Abr. Bloeraart ; " A Repofe during the 

 Flight into Egygt," in a circle ; " Chri'l preaching to the 

 Multitude ;" and " The Miracle of the Loaves and Fifhes," 

 (of the oval form, ) are all in folio, and after the fame mafter ; 

 "Daniel in the Lion's Den,' and "Diana changing Ac- 

 tion to a Stag,'' after Th. Bernard, in folio ; and " Po- 

 lyphemus, -'^ cis, and Galatea," in Hill larger folio, after Cor- 

 nelius de Harlem. 



Jacques de Ghein, the younger, was of the fame family 

 with the preceding artiil:, and was born at Antwerp in the 

 year 1610. He travelled to Italy, and, as is fuppofed, 

 became the dilciple of Antonio Tempefta, whofe llyle of 

 etching he imitated with no fmall fuccefs : he fometimes 

 worked in conjunftion with Coryn Boel, and marked his 

 prints with his name at length, fometira -s with the addition 

 of " Ju ior." 



Among hi- works may be mentioned with diftinftion, the 

 portraits of Francis I. at the battle of Pdvia, after A. 

 Tempefta ; and that of the emperor Charles 'V. on horfe- 

 back, accompanied by his general officers, at the battle of 

 Muhlherg, bo'h in fol.o. He alfo engraved, in co 'cert 

 with C'ryn B"el, the plates for " The Life of the Em- 

 peror Charles V." after Tempeda. 



Gull aume de Ghein was alio 3 native of the Low Coun- 

 tries, b'lt of wh:it part is uncertain, and was !iorn fome time 

 about the year 1610. Prefumptively he was of the fame 

 family with Jacques. He travelled to Paris and ftudied there, 

 or, at leaft, praclifed engraving, under J. de Blow, for 

 whom he engraved two, wa. *' Spring," and "Summer,'' 

 of the four feafons, perfonified fomewhat ridiculoufly, by 

 female figures attired in the French collume of the age of 

 Louis XIII. Here alfo he engraved the portrait of Louis 

 XIV. when a youth ; he is reprefented on horfeback, and 

 attired for the chafe ; and that of the duke Bernard, of 

 Weymar, alfo on horfeback ; both are of large folio dimen- 

 iions, and engraved in a ftyle which bears ftrong refemblance 

 to that of Abraham Bofle. 



Louis de Vadder was born at BrufTels in the year 1560. 

 He was the ftudent of Nature alone : at leaft he has ac- 

 knowledged no other inftrudlor, and no other has been re- 

 corded ; and paintfd and etched landfcape with much abi- 

 lity : he was particularly fuccefsful in his reprefentations of 

 Morning, and often introduced the rifing fun diifipating the 

 dank vapours of Night, and tinging the tops of the moun- 

 tains, and other lofty objects, with golden luftre. His ftyle 

 of etching is fph-ited and free, much refembling that of 

 Van Uden ; and among his beft prints will be found afraall 

 village fcene The fame fcene, with falconers preparing 

 to fet forth oa their morning's diverfion ; and a folio land- 

 fcape, with the effect of a ftorm ; which, in addition to the 

 name of Vadder, bears that of Vorftermans ; from which 

 circuinibince it may be prefumed that the latter artift either 



affifted in etching it, or worked upon the plate afterwards 

 with the graver. 



Gilbert van Veen, or Vaenius, was born at Leyden in th^ 

 year 1566, and died at Antwerp in 1628. He was the 

 brother of Otho Vxnius, a celebrated painter of portraits 

 and hiftory, who was the inftruftor of Rubens. 



Gilbert worked with the graver only, in a flyle greatly re- 

 fembling that of Cornelius Cort ; and from the number of 

 engravings that he produced after the Itahaii maftcrs, it 

 has been interred that he travelled with Otho into Italy. 

 His engravings are flight, but his outline is good ; his heads 

 exprefhve, and his hands and feet marked in a ftyle that 

 fhews the foundiiefs of his knowledge, and, as Strutt fays, 

 does him honour. 



In the year 161 2, we find him living at Antwerp, where, 

 in the courfe of that year, he publiftied " The Emblems of 

 Horace," after his brother's defigns ; and fliortly after, a 

 fet of plates, of which the fubjefts are taken by Otho, 

 from the " Life of St. Thomas Aquinas,'' a meritorious 

 v,-ork, engraved under the influence of a fupcrintending 

 fimplicity, perfeftly homogeneous with the ftyle of his bro- 

 ther's defigns, and which fhewed that they were brothers in 

 mind, as well as by confanguinity. 



The principal works of this artift are the Potlraits of 

 Erneil, duke of Bavaria, in a medallion, fupported by 

 Fame ; John of Bologna, and Alexander Farnefe, after 

 Otho Vmius, furrounded with allegorical figures, all of 

 foli ) fize. 



Of his Hy}orkal IVorks may be mentioned, " The Em- 

 blems of Horace,' in quarto ; "The Emblems of divine 

 and piofane Love ;" and " The Life of St. Thomas Aqui- 

 nas,'' all after Otho Vaenius ; " The Four Seafons," from 

 Raohael del CoUe, in folio ; " The Marriage of Ifaac and 

 Rebecca," in a frieze, compofed of five folio plates, after 

 Balth. Peruzzi, a very rare and capital work ; " The Vi- 

 fitation of St. Elizabeth,'' in folio, from Baroccio ; and 

 " Our Saviour crucified, attended by the Virgin and St. 

 John," in large folio, after the fame mafter. 



Bartholomew Dolendo was born at Leyden A.D. i^G6, 

 and became the dilciple of Henry Goltzius. He worked 

 entirely with the graver in an open ftyl?, fomewhat refem- 

 bling the flighter works of his mafter, but was much his 

 inferior, both as an engraver and diaftfman ; yet it is faid, 

 that Gerard Douw learned the £ril principles of drawing 

 from Dolendo. 



He marked his engravings with one or other of the cy- 

 phers which may be feen in Plate II. of thofe ufed by the 

 engravers of the Low Countries, and his aiotl efteemed 

 produtiions are " The Prophet J.inas thrown into the Sea," 

 which is companion to " The Prophet Jonas afleep under 

 his Gourd," in circles; "A Dutch Village Fete,'' in 

 quarto ; " Adam and Eve receiving the forbidden Freit," 

 after Karl van Mander, in quarto ; " Jefus appearing to 

 Mary Magdalen as a Gardener," in folio, from his own 

 compofirion ; " The Holy Family,'' and " St. John preach- 

 ing in the Defart,'' botli in foho, after M. Coxie ; " Py- 

 ramus and Thifbe," after C. vanden Broeck, in quarto ; 

 " Jupiter and Ceres," after B. Spranger, in large folio; 

 and "The Aft^umption of the Holy Virgin,'' alfo in large 

 folio. 



Zachaiiah Dolendo was born at Leyden in the year 1 j6~, 

 he was related to the preceding artift, and learned the ele- 

 ments of his art of Jacques de Ghein. He drew correctly, 

 and was, in no reipeft, inferior to his mafter. We have, by 

 his hand, a number of portraits which are equal to tholje of 



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