LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



been taken before tlie addrefs of the junior Bouttats was in- 

 fcribcd Ijeneath the plate ; " The Defeat of the Army of 

 Sennacherib by the exterminating Angel," alfo after Ru- 

 bens, and in large folio ; " Jcfus grving the Keys to St. 

 Peter," from Raphael; "The miraculous Draught of 

 Fifhes," from Rubens, all in large folio; "The Lalt Sup- 

 per," a very long print, engraved on two plates, from the 

 celebrated picture of Da Vnici, in the refeftory of the Do- 

 ininicaiis at Milan, engraved through the medium of a 

 dra«fing by Rubens ; " Chrill on the Crofs," after Ru- 

 bens, of which plate it is very uncommon to find a good 

 imprefTion ; " Chrifl. laid in the Sepulchre." The firit im- 

 prefiions of this plate being very faint, Widoeck worked 

 afterwards on the plate, to give it more effect. " The 

 Creation of a Billiop," all in folio; " The Rape of Pro- 

 ferpine ;" " The Triumph of Venus," in large folio ; and 

 " A drunken Silenus, ' fnpportcd by a fatyr and a negrefs, 

 all after Rubens ; " The Grand Sultan on Horfeback," at- 

 tended by his principal oificers at the head of his army, in 

 folio, from a piAure by Soutman himlelf ; a fet of four 

 large hunting pieces, nasnely, the chace of a lion and 

 lioneis, ditto of a wolf, ditto of a boar, and ditto of a 

 crocodile and hippopotamus, engraved on two plates, all 

 after Rubens ; " A couchant Venus," after Titian ; and 

 •' St. Francis kneeling before a Crucifix," from Michael 

 Angelo, both of folio lize. 



Sneyders was flourifliing at this period, and contributed 

 to the advancement of engraving by a book of animals, 

 which he etched with a degree of truth and animation cor- 

 refponding with what we beheld with fo much pleafure in 

 his pitlures. His etchings confilt, we believe, of fixteen 

 plates, which are not all of the fame dimenllons. For the 

 biography of this extraordinary artift, fee the article 

 Sneyders, Francis. 



John Vredifnan Frifius was born at Leuwarde in the year 

 1527. He was an architeft of loine talent, as well as an 

 engraver ; and is the defigner of the arch erefted at Ant- 

 werp, in honour of the triumphal entry of Charles Vt and 

 Lis fon. The principal engravings of the elder Frifius are 

 •ontained in a book of fepulchral monuments, which are 

 prefumptively from his own defigns. The work was pub- 

 lifhed at Antwerp, A.D. 1563. His ilyle confifts of a 

 coarle and heavy mixture of etching, with the work of the 

 graver. 



Related to the above artift were John EiUart Frifius and 

 Simon Frifius : the former is the author of fome few por- 

 traits, among which are thofe of Henry IV. of France, and 

 Henry of NaiTau, prince of Orange ; both of which are 

 folio dimenfioDS. 



But Simon Frifius was an artift of abilities very fuperior 

 to thofe of his relatives. He was born at Leuwarde in 

 Fxiefland, A.D. 1580, and learned the rudiments of en- 

 graving of EiUart, or of Vredifnan. He handled the 

 etching-needle with great tafte and facility ; and his etchings 

 are now become rare, and are much fought after. Abram 

 Boffe fay.<!, " Simon Frifius handled the point with great 

 ireedom, and. his hatchings pofiefs the firmnefs and neatnefs 

 of engraving." He adds, (what we do not Very well un- 

 derftand,) that " this artift made ufe of a foft kind of 

 ■varnilh,. iuch .as is ufed by refiners in the feparation of 

 laetals." 



He fometimes fubfcribed his plates with " F. fecit;" 

 ard at others, with his initials " S. F. ;" and his beft prints, 

 are a fet of heads of the fybils and faints, in 4to., from his 

 own defigns; a fet of portraits, after H. Hondius, in fmall 

 folio ; a large collection of folio landfcapes, after Matthew 

 Briil, entitled ." Topogiaphia variorum Regionumj" two 



landfcapes, from Henry Goltzius, of which the fubje£t of 

 one (of 4to. fize) is a cottage and figures on the fca-ftiore, 

 the other is an architectural landfcape in foho, with figures, 

 in the introdudlion and execution of which Frifius was par- 

 ticularly excellent ; another iandfcape, in which is intro- 

 duced the ftory of Tobit and the angel, after P. Laftmann ; 

 another, with the flight into Egypt ; and a very rare Iand- 

 fcape, delicately engraven, wherein are buildings and ruftic 

 figures, in large folio. 



James Foiiguieres and Jodocus de Momper, or Mompert, 

 were both born at Antwerp in the year 15S0. For an ac- 

 count of their merits as landicape painters, fee their names 

 refpeclively. Both occafionally practilcd wich fuccefs the 

 art of ctchirg ; working from their own compofitions. 

 Fouguicres' eicliings are not numerous, and confilt of fmall 

 landfcapes : Mompert's are fomewhat l;u-ger, and one in 

 particular, which is now become rare, is a large folio land- 

 Icape, a rocky icene, and etched in a very bold llyle, quite 

 in the extreme of boldncfs. 



Adrian Stalbent Was alfo of Antwerp, and contemporary 

 with Fouguieres and Mompert. He refided for fome years 

 in England, from whence he returned rich ; though it may 

 reafonably be fnfpedted whether, at this period, his riches 

 could have been obtained in this country by painting and 

 etching landfcapes. He, however, continued to paint and 

 etch in the city of Antwerp, until he attained to upwards of 

 fourfcore years of age. 



Of his etchings, the beft with which we arc acquainted is 

 a foho landlcape of the ruins of a magnificent Englilh abbey, 

 with fiieep on the fore-ground ; it is infcribed " Adrianus 

 van Stalbent fecit in aqua forti." 



James William Delft was the fon of William James, of 

 whom we have fpoken in our account of the Origin and PrO' 

 gt-e/s of English Engraving. He was born in the year 

 1619, at Delft, and died in the fame city in 1661. He 

 learned the elements of painting and engraving of his father, 

 vvhofe ftyle he always copied, and which, with the fimilarity 

 of their names, has occafioned their works to be often con- 

 founded. He engraved a fet of portraits in ovals, of folio 

 fize, of which the following are the moft remarkable : 

 Charles I. of England; queen Elizabeth; Ferdinand 1\. 

 emperor of Germany ; Frtdcrick, palatine, king of Bo- 

 hemia ; Frederick Henry, prince of Orange, count ot Naftaii 

 Katzenellenbogen ; Gultavus Adolphus, king of Sweden ; 

 James, king of England; Louis XIII. of France; Axel 

 Oxenftiern, a Svvedilh miniller ; Philip HI. of Spain; 

 Philip IV. of Spain ; Ambrofius Spinola ; and Vladiflas IV. 

 king of Poland. 



John Savary, or Savery, was born at Courtray in the 

 year 1580. He ftudied engraving under Hans Bol, refided 

 during moft part of his life at Amfterdam, and was related 

 to John and Roland Savery, who were both painters, and 

 to Solomon Savery the engraver, of whom we ftiall next 

 proceed to fpeak. 



The following engravings are all we can fpecify by the 

 hand of this artift, who was alfo a Iandfcape painter : a fet 

 of fix mountainous landfcapes, with figures, in 4to., after 

 Nic. de Clerc ; a ftag hunt, with a landlcape back-ground, 

 ill folio ; the ftory of Sanipfon killing the lion, introduced in 

 a Iandfcape, in large folio ; and a w oody fcene, with a water- 

 fall, in folio. 



Solomon Savery is believed to have been a native of Am- 

 fterdam : the time of his birth we have not afcertained ; but 

 as his engravings were produced from the year 1620 to 1640, 

 he was perhaps tl?e fon and pupil of John Savery, whom we 

 have jnft difmiifed. He is fuppcfed to have pafTed fome 

 years of his life in England ; a luppofition which appeai-s to 

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