LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



Wierix ; his monotrram will be found in Plate II. of thofe 

 ufed by the Low Country engravers. 



* From his works we (hall feletl the foUowinej, as being 

 mod worthy of elleem : — William, prince of Orange, a 

 half-length figure in armour, in a quarto oval, and finely en- 

 graved ; " Andromeda chained to a Rock," from his own 

 corapofition ; " The Virgin feated on a Throne, crowned 

 by two Angels," after Jac. de Ghein, both of quarto 

 fize ; "The Crucifixion," in large folio, irom tlie fame 

 painter ; " Adam embracing Eve, whillt {he receives the 

 Apple from the Serpent," after Spranger ; "St. Martin 

 dividing his Mantle between two Beggars,'' from the fame 

 painter, in quarto ; " The Continence of Scipio," a cir- 

 cular print, from Ab. Bloemart, both in quarto; and a let 

 of "The Heathen Gods and Goddeffes," from H. Golt- 

 zius. His naked Andromeda is a well-drawn figure, 

 with the head and extremities marked in a mallerly ftyle. 

 Of the two Dolendos, who were probably brothers, it may 

 fafely be afferted, that Zachariah was the fuperior artill. The 

 time of his death has efcaped notice : if that of his birth 

 has been truly regiilered by Huber, he could have been 

 only in his fourteenth year (which is fcarcely credible) when 

 he produced his excellent portrait of prince William of 

 Orange, for the print bears the date of 158 1. 



The family of Bloemaert attained a juftly founded cele- 

 brity as engravers, during the period which is now under 

 our review : for an account of them the reader is referred to 

 the article Bloemaert, in our fourth volume. 



James Matham was born at Haerlem in the year 1571. 

 As we have already ftated, he became the fon-in-law and 

 pupil of Henry Goltzius, in confequence of his widowed 

 mother marrying that diftinguithed artift. during the ado- 

 lefcence of James. Advifed, no doubt, by his tutors, he 

 travelled to Italy to complete his ftudies, and in that coun- 

 try produced a confiderable number of engravings : yet after 

 his return he continued to work under the eye and the 

 direftion of Goltzius, and though he produced many va- 

 luable prints, they poffefs little originality as engravings, 

 being executed in the ftyle, or rather, in the munner of his 

 father-in-law, whom, however, Matham never equalled in 

 correftnefs of outline, or in tafte, or in the fcience which 

 enabled Goltzius to adapt his powers to the feveral occa- 

 fions which called them forth. In (hort, though his manual 

 command of the graver, which was the fole inftrument of 

 his art, evinced extraordinary (kill, yet, like motl imitators, 

 in feizing the groder part of the art of Goltzius, he let the 

 effence efcape. His numerous engravings, however, have 

 been valued by mod coUeftors, and are principally as 

 follows. 



Portraits. — A buft of -Philip Winghius, after H. Golt- 

 ■zius, in oftavo ; a buft of T'leeft al van den Velde, in an 

 hiftorical border, in quarto ; and Nicolas Bulius, alfo in 

 •quarto ; Abraham Bloemaert, in folio, after Paul Morelfen; 

 Michael Angelo Buonaroti, in folio ; Philip William, 

 prince of Orange, after Mirevelt ; and Henry of NalFau, 

 priilte of Orange, both in large folio. 



jifter various Italian Majlers. — " The Statue of Mofes," 

 a fitting figure, after Michael Angelo ; and the " Statue 

 of Chrift," from the fame mafter, both in folio ; " A Holy 

 Family," where the Virgin is reprefented carrying the 

 infant Chrift, accompanied by St. Anne, after the pidture 

 of Raphael, which was prefented to Charles II. of England, 

 by the republic of Holland ; " Mount Parnaffus, with 

 Apollo, the Mufes, and the Poets," both in large folio; 

 ♦' A Holy Family," accompanied by St. Catherine, after 

 Titian, in foho ; " The AUiance of Venus, Ceres, and 



Bacchus," from the fame painter ; " The Vifitation of the 

 Virgin," a rich compofition, after F. Salviati, in large 

 folio; "The Saviour's Feet anointed," a circular print, 

 after Thaddeus Zuccaro ; " Chrift on the Mount of 

 Olives," both in folio ; " The Nativity," and " The Af- 

 fumption of the Virgin," grand compofitions from the 

 fame painter, in very large folio ; " The Adoration of the 

 Kings;" "Chrift heahng the Sick;" "The Refurrec- 

 tion of the Widow's Son," all grand compofitions, after 

 Zuccaro, of large folio fize ; and " The Vifitation," after 

 P. Veronefe, a circular print, alfo in large folio. 



Various fubjetls, after Golt%'ius. — " The Fall of our Firft 

 Parents ;" " The Holy Family," with St. Elizabeth ; 

 " Chrid on the Crofs," at the foot of which is St. John 

 and the Virgi;: ; " Chrift appearing to the Magdalen, in 

 the Garden," all of folio dimenfions ; " Jefus at liable with 

 hisDilciples at Emmaus ;" "St. Luke painting the Virgin," 

 in large foho ; " Venus requefting Cupid to aim an Arrow 

 at Pluto," in quarto ; " The Loves of the Gods," t/z. 

 I. Jupiter and Europa. 2. Phoebus and Leucothoe. 

 3. Mars and Venus. And 4. Hercules and Dcjanira, en- 

 graved as a fet ; " The four Seafons," in circles ; " The 

 three Chriftian Virtues," Faith, Hope, and Cliarity, all in 

 folio ; " Tlie feven Cardinal Virtues," in quarto ; and " The 

 Seven mortal Sins," in folio ; " Tlie Picture of Ccbes," or 

 " The Type of Human Life," a very large compofition, 

 engraved on three plates, in a very fine ftyle. 



Hijlorkal, after various Painters. — " Abraham difmiffing 

 Hagar," ia fulio ; "The Annunciation," in half figures; 

 " The Adoration of the Shepherds," all in folio; " The 

 Parable of the Sower," with a laiidfcape back-ground, in 

 large folio ; " The Virgin in a Glory," and her head fur- 

 rounded with feven ftars, the crown of immortality, in 

 folio; " St. Veronica and St. Suaire, with two Angels," 

 in large folio ; " St. Stephen kneeling ;" " The Loves of 

 Jupiter andDanae;" and " The Loves of Cupid and Pfyche," 

 all in folio, from Ab. Bloemaert ; " Samplon alleep on the 

 Lap of Dalilah," after Rubens, in large folio ; " The Holy 

 Women, weeping over the dead Body of Chrift," after 

 Jer. Franck, in folio ; " The Crucifixion," after Albert 

 Durer, known by the appellation of " The Grand Cal- 

 vary a I'accolade," large and rare; "Venus afleep, furprifed 

 by Satyrs," after Rotteiihamer, in quarto ; and a let of 

 five very rare prints, after Peter Van Aertfen, (called 

 , by the French Peter tlie Long) ; namely, i. The Poulterer 

 and Fruiterer. 2. Six Women and a Man, furroundcd with 

 Provifions of all kinds. 3. The Kitchen of the wicked rich 

 Man. 4. Jefus and his Difciplcs, in the Kitchen at Em- 

 maus. And 5. The Toafter ; of which fet it is very dif- 

 ficult to meet with goad impreflions. 



Theodore Matham was the fon and pupil of the pre- 

 ceding artift, and was born at Haerlem in the year 1600. 

 He travelled into Italy, where he (ludied in the fchool of 

 Cornehus Bloemaert, and in conjunftion with him, Perfyn, 

 Natalis, and other artifts, he engraved the llatues of the 

 Juftinian palace. He did not work with the graver only, 

 but fometimes made ufe of the point ; moft of his works 

 confift of portraits, many of which are executed in a man- 

 ner which does honour to the artift ; among his works we 

 (hall mention the following as being moft worthy of the 

 notice of the colleftor. 



Portraits. — Michael le Blon, agent of the queen of Swe- 

 den, after Vandyke; Jooft van de Vondel, a Dutch poet, 

 after Sandrart ; Jodocus Larenus, a reforming minifter ; 

 Vopifcus Fortunatus Plempius, dotior of medicine ; D. 

 Gerardus Voffius, Canonicus Cantuarienfis, after Sandrart ; 



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