LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS 



OF TFIE. 



*f LeySen ; " Deborah nailing the Head of Slfera," in 

 folio, from the fame painter ; " The Meeting of Eleazar 

 and Rebecca," after Carl van Mander, in large folio ; 

 " David witli the Head of Goliah" on his fword, from Lu- 

 cas of Leyden ; " The Daughter of Herodias dancing at 

 the Feftival of Herod," after C. van Mander ; " The Nati- 

 vity," a grand compofition ; and " Paul and Barnabas refuf- 

 ing the Sacrifice of the Inhabitants of Lyflra," a grand com- 

 pofition, all in large folio, after the fame painter ; " Adam 

 and Eve in the terreftrial Paradife," in folio, from Corne- 

 lius of Haerlem ; " Sufannah and the Elders ;" " St. John 

 preaching in the Wildernefs ;" " Paris and Oenone cutting 

 their Names on the Bark of a Tree ;'' " Angelica and Mc- 

 dora engraving their Names on a Beech Tree ;'' " Vertum- 

 ntjsand Pomona ;" all in folio, from the fame painter. " The 

 Grotto of Plato,'' a celebrated parable, Shewing that mod 

 mortals prefer darknels to light, with twelve Latin vcrfes, 

 from C. of Haerlem, in large folio ; a very fine print, both 

 in compofition and execution. A wounded general, carried 

 by his toldiers, formerly fuppofed to be Scipio, but as the 

 coftume of the figures is Grecian, and not Roman, it is 

 more probably "The Death of Epaminondas ;" it is en- 

 graved after a drawing by Goltzius. '" The Redemption 

 of Rome by the Dictator Camillas," after a drawing by 

 Goltzius ; both of folio fize. In the latter print, the ^ha- 

 rafters of the Romans and Gauls are finely contrafted. A 

 fet of eight foho plates, dedicated to the duke of Aque- 

 .parte, of " The Hiftory of the Unfortunate Niobe and 

 her Children," from the drawings of Goltzius after Cara- 

 vaggio ; wkh Latin verfes, very rare. The pitlures form a 

 frieze in the palace of Buffjl, at Rom^. " Tlie Entomb- 

 ing of Our Saviour," after Michael Angelo ; and " Our 

 Saviour at the Houfe of Levi the Publican ;" executed on 

 five plates, from the pitlures of Paul Veronefe in the church 

 of 'St. Paul at Rome, of large folio fize, and very rare. 



Peter Serwouters, or Shcrwouter, was born at Antwerp 

 in the year 1574, where he always relided. He worked 

 in a clear neat ilyle with the graver only, but without much 

 tafte. His plates are not fufficiently finiihed to produce a 

 pleafing eifeA, nor accurate enough to bear critical exami- 

 nation. 



From among his works, which are not numerous, the fol- 

 lowing may be dillinguilhed as lead unworthy of the notice of 

 the coUeftor. A fet of ten fubjefts of Chafes, after D. 

 Vinckenbooms, in fmall folio, lengthways ; " The Fall of 

 our firft Parents," of which the artifts of the Netherlands 

 appear to have thought their countrymen could not be too 

 often reminded. In the prelent inftance, French and Dutch 

 Terfes lend their aid in imprefling the religious leffon, and 

 the whole forms a large folio print. " Sampfon killing the 

 Lion^" "David killing the Bear;" and an emblematical 

 plate, reprefenting in the front a Dutch merry-making, with 

 figures dancing, and a cottage in the back-ground, from the 

 door of which a man and his wife are ilTuing forth to oppole 

 a man with' a drawn fword; all in folio, from the fame 

 pai.iter. Serwouters alfo engraved part of the plates for 

 Thibault's " Academic de I'Efpce," in folio, publilhed at 

 Antwerp A. D. 1628. The monogram which this artill 

 fonietimes affixed to his prints will be found in PJate III. 

 of thole ufcd by the engravers of the Low Countries. 



John von Londerfeel was born at Bruges in the year 15 So. 

 He worked entirely with the graver, in a lliff dry Ityle, 

 greatly refembling that of Nicholas de Bruin, whofe difciple 

 he probably was. However, his prints are not without 

 Xome fhare of merit ; and are fought after by connoitTeurs. 



He marked his plates in various ways, fo.metimes with his 

 Aaitials, combined as in our Pljle IV. of the monograms, 5cc. 



ufed by the engravers of the Lowr Countries, or, at other 

 times, J. Lond. or J. Londer fee. Among his works, we. 

 fiiall feiecl the following as being mod worthy of the atten- 

 tion of the coUeftor. The theological virtues. Faith, Hope, 

 and Charity, perfonified by female figures, with a landfrape 

 back-ground; the Five Senfes charafterifed by figures, feated 

 in a landfcape, both in large folio, and apparently from his 

 own defigns. A woody landfcape with hunters; and one with 

 the fable of Apollo and Daphne, both in folio, from Jac. 

 Savery ; " The difobedient Prophet devoured by a Lion ;" 

 " Tobit journeying with the Angel;" "Jacob tending 

 the Flocks of Laban," with landfcape back-grounds; 

 " St. John in the Wildernefs," a'l in large folio, and after 

 G. Hondecoter ; " The good Samaritan ;" " The blind 

 Warrior;" " The Woman with the Haemorrhage;' and 

 " Abraham facrificing Ifaac," all after Giles Coninxloo. 

 A perfpeftive view of the interior of the church of St. 

 John de Lateran at Rome, after Hendrick Arts, (a painter 

 with whofe name we are otherwife unacquainted.) The 

 following are all after D. Vinckenbooms ; " Saul anointed 

 King of the Hebrews ;" " The Rape of Tamar ; " "The 

 Prophet foretelling to Jeroboam the Divifion of his King- 

 dom ;" " Sufannah fiirprifed by the Elders ;" " The 

 Temptation in the Wildernefs ;" " The Saviour praying 

 on the Mount of Olives ;" " The Maries approaching the 

 Holy Sepulchre;" " Diana and AAaeon ;" and " The 

 Plealurcs of Summer." The latter is a meritorious land- 

 fcape, and they are all of large folio fizcs. 



•Tohn Bara, or Barra, was a native of Holland, born A.D. 

 1572. He emigrated to England, and in the year 1624 

 was refiuing in London. His llendcr talents, however, 

 merit not much attention. His inilrument was the graver, ' 

 and that only : his "rvori may be truly fo termed, being en- 

 tirely without the vivacioufnefs of art, and charafterized by 

 all the tamencfi and coldnefs of manual labour, in which 

 refped the word imitator of the worll of the Sadelcrs did 

 not outdo him. 



Of the engravings of Barra, it may be quite fufficient to 

 mention the 



Poi'traits of prince Maurice of Naffau and Orange ; 

 Charles II., elector of Saxony ; Joachim, count of Ortem- 

 berg ; and Lodovicus, duke of Richmond and Lenox, the 

 latter of which was engraved in this country. 



Hi/lorkal SuijeNs, tfc. — " Phaeton's fatal Requed to 

 Apollu," introduced in a landfcape, of folio fize. Four 

 other landl^capes in quarto, in which are introduced the 

 pilgrims to Emmaus, and different events in the hiilory of 

 Tobit. Two hiftorlcal landfcapes from the dory oi " Su- 

 fanna and the Elders;" " The Parable of the Sower;" 

 " Herodias receiving the Head of John the Baptid," all in 

 quarto. The lad fubjecl is from J. van Achen. " Time 

 and Truth" is from Paulus ab Edstis, and is a fmall up- 

 right, as is alio " Bathftieba at the Bath." 



Nicholas, or Claus Coeck, is fcarcely more worthy of 

 notice than him whom we have jud difniiifed. He was of 

 Leyden, born m the year 1576, and, according to the baron 

 Heinneken, dudied under Frank Floris, though his en- 

 graving appears rather to contradidl this, and to point t<» 

 Cornelius Cort as his niader.. 



Of his works, which ars not numerous, it may be fuffi- 

 cient to name " The Four Elements," perfanified by half- 

 length fi2;"res, and " The Judgment of Midas," all after 

 Carl van'Mander, and of folio dimenfions. 



Gidiert van Breen, or Van Brecht, was born in HoJland 

 fome time about the year 1576. He worked entirely with 

 the o-raver, and is fuppofed to have been trie difciple of 



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