LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



dueed, they added a talent of rendering local colour in the 

 abftraft, which they poflefled and exercifod in enviable per- 

 fedion. 



Lucas Vorderman the elder was born at Antwerp, AD. 

 -15S0, and at firll (ludied painting in the fchool of Rubens ; 

 " but, counielled by his mailer, who had remarked the true 

 bent of his geniu", he quitted the pencil for the graver. 

 He greatly dillinguilhed himfelf as an engraver before he 

 ■quitted the Low Countri'J?, in particular by the prbdutlion 

 of his print of " The Adoration of the Eaftcrn Kings," 

 after Rubens ; which is pi-onounccd by Huber to be one 

 of the ilncft engravings that was ever executed, and is indeed 

 a print of tranfcendent merit. But Vorflerman is of the 

 number of thofe artills who were attracted to the court of 

 London, by the talle and patronage of Charles L; and as 

 he contributed' largely to the advancement of Englilh en- 

 graving, the reader will find fuch of the fubfequent events 

 of his life, as are of importance to art, detailed, -and accom- 

 panied by a general eftimate of his merits, in our account of 

 the Origin and Progfffs of En'GIJ.'ih Engraving. A moi-e 

 copious lift of the bell works of fo dillinguillied an artift 

 than we were then enabled to offer, is now I'ubmitted to the 

 admirers of legitimate engraving. 



iucas commonly figned his plates with a cypher, for 

 ■W'hich fee Plate 111. of thofe u fed by the engravers of the 

 Low Countries. 



Portraits after Vandyke. — Peter de Jode ; Charles de 

 Mallery ; James Callot ; Theodore Galle ; Wencellaus 

 ■Coeberger ; Deodatus del Mont ; Peter Stevens ; John 

 Vin Mildeit ; Hubertus Vanden Eynden ; Lucas Van 

 •Uder. ; Cornellius Sachtleven ; Horatius Gentilefcius ; and 

 John Livens, all diftinguillied artills, in folio ; Ifabclla 

 ■Clara Eugenia, infanta of Spain ; Gallon, of France, duke 

 of Orleans, brother to the king of France ; Ambrolius 

 ■Spinola, goveinor-general of the Low Countries ; Wolf- 

 gang William, count palatine of the Rhine, and duke of 

 .Bavaria; Francis of Moncade, count of OlTona; Nicolas 

 Fabricius, of Peirefe ; Alfonfo Perez de Vivcro, count of 

 •Fuenfalds ; Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel, all of folio 

 •dimenlions ; Nicolas Roccokxius, an amateur of Antwerp ; 

 one of the fined portraits of Vorllerman, in large folio. 



Portraits after -various other Majlers — A bull of P'ato, 

 after an antique marble ■; bull of Seneca the philofopher, 

 alfo after an antique ; a pair of Cofmo of Medicis, and Lo- 

 renzo of Medicis, in circular borders ; pope Leo X., an 

 oftagon plate ; Julius Lipfius, Ifcanus ; and Claudius 

 Maugis, abbe of St. Nicholas, from Ph. de Champagne, 

 all of 4to. fize ; John de Serres, after N. Van der Horft, 

 xn 4to. ; Conllantine Hughens, fecretary to the prince of 

 •Orange ; John Livins, del. ; a bull of tl.e emperor 

 Charles V. and the conftable of Bourbon, both from Titian, 

 IB folio ; another of the emperor Charles V., after a copy 

 •by Rubens, from Titian ; Charles de Longueval, count of 

 Bufquoi, after Rubens, a very fine and rare print, in large 

 •folio. 



Hfiyrical, after varioas Painters. — " The Holy Fa- 

 mily," on a black ground (engraved in England), after 

 Raphael ; " The Entombing of Chrift," and " St. George 

 on Horleback," both from the fame painter, in folio ; 

 ■" Chrill in the Garden of Olives," after Caracci, in large 

 ■folio ; " The Virgin and Holy Infant," worshipped by two 

 -pilgrims, ia folio, after Michael Angelo ; " The Adorati(Dn 

 •of the .Shepherds;'" the fame fubjeft differently treated; 

 " The Adoration of the Eallern Kings," a very fine and 

 'Xare print ; a repetition of the fame fuhjeft, all in large 

 ibiio ; " The Holy Family," accompanied by St. Anne ; 

 .another "Holy Family," where ihe infant Chrift carefles 



his mother ; " The Virgin and Holy Infant"", aecompa'nied 

 by St. John ; " Ctefar's Tax, or the Tribute Money," all 

 in folio ; " The Defcent from the Crofs," in large folio ; 

 (the beft impreffions of this plate are infcribed C. Van 

 Mtrlen) ; " The Angel appearing to the Holy Women ac 

 the Sepulchre of Chrill," in folio ; " St. Francis receiving 

 the Stigmatics ;"' " The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence," 

 both in large folio ; " Mary Magdalen throwing away her 

 JeweLs ;" the frontifpiccc of a book, intitled " A general 

 Ecclefiatlical Hillory, from the Birth of Jefus Chrill to the 

 Year 1624," in folio, all after Rubens. " The Flagel- 

 lation of our Saviour," in large folio, after G. Seghers ; 

 " The Death of St. Francis," after the fame painter ; 

 " St. Ignatius of Loyola ;" " The Fable of the Satyr and 

 his Gueft, who blew hot and cold with the fame Breath," 

 after Jac. Jordaens, in large folio ; " The Chace of a Bear," 

 after Snyders ; and " A Vocal Concert" of fix perfons, 

 among whom a girl is playing the guitar, after A. Coder, 

 both of folio dimenfions. 



Contemporary and compeering with the elder Vorderman, 

 were the Bolfwerts. The biography of thefe was inferted 

 in our fourth volume before our prefent arrangement in 

 fchools was determined on (fee Bolswerf, Adam, or 

 BoE'rius, and Sheltiu.s) ; but of the works of artifts fo 

 illultrious, it has been judged proper to add a more co- 

 pious lift for the information of colleftors, omitting thofe 

 which are already before the reader in vol. iv. The mono- 

 grams with which thefe artills feverally marked their per- 

 formances, mav be feen in our third plate of thofe ufed by 

 the engravers of the Low Countries. 



Worts of Boetius. a Bolf'wert. — The portraits of Adatn 

 Salbout, with the motto "Omnia Vanitas ;" a pair of 

 ditto of John Bergman, (a celebrated Jefuit,) kneeling 

 before a flcull ; and St. Alo'ife Gonzaga, kneeling before 

 a crucifix, both in folio ; Guillaume Louis, comte de 

 NalTau, and (its companion) the corpfe of the fame no- 

 bleman lying in date, dated 1618, and after M. Mirevelt, 

 in folio ; a fet of feventy-feven fmall plates, from defigns by 

 Bolfwert himfelf, done to accompany " The Life of Chrift;'* 

 another fet of fmall book plates, alfo from his own defigns, 

 engraved for a myilical work, entitled " Le Pelerinage." 



Hijlorical SubjeHs after various Mafers. — " The Adoratioa 

 of the Shepherds," after Abr. Bloemart ; " A Repofe 

 during the Flight into Egypt ;" both in large folio. A 

 fet of four landfcapes, and fourteen plates of animals, in 

 4to. both from the fame mader ; " Jefus at the Houfe of 

 Martha and Mary," a rich compofition, after J. Goiemar, 

 a very large plate, very much fought after ; " Death and 

 Time, conquering Men and Animals," in folio, after D. 

 Viiickenbooms ; •' Adam and Eve in the terreftrial Para- 

 dife," furrounded with animals, a very fine engraving from 

 the fame painter. Thefe three prints are very rare, and 

 much fought after by colleftors.; and " The Judgment of 

 Solomon," a large folio plate, after Rubens. 



The moft elleemed works of Sheltius a Bolfwert, omit- 

 ing thofe mentioned in the Cyclopaedia, vol iv. and beginning 

 with his lamlfcapLs, are as follow : — The landfcapes of 

 Sheltius are indeed very furprifing performances. When 

 we conlider the pifturefque ruggednefs of his rocks, and 

 boles of treeSj and the freedom and loofenefs of his foliage, 

 it feems fcarcely credible that fo high a degree of excel- 

 lenoe in this department of the art (hould have been attained 

 by the ufe of the graver alone ; yet in all his landfcapes not 

 a line of etching appears. Nor is our wonder lefs excited 

 when we contemplate the tones, rich or exquifite as the 

 various occafions required, which Bolfwert has here pro- 

 duced, more perfeAly vibrating -with thofe of the original 



pii^tures : 



