LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



cond,acel#bratedLatin poet, a very rare print, infcribed" Jo- 

 annes fcciindus Hagienfis Poeta. Rodcrmont fecit," in large 

 4to. ; a three-quarter view of a man with a curly beard, 

 (this print, which is not above mediocrity, is in the ftyle of 

 Rembruiidt ; by Gerfaint it is attributed to Verbecq, and 

 by Bartfch to Rodertnonl) ; and " David praying," with 

 his harp and turban befide him, in 410. 



Peter van Sompel, or van Sompelin, was born at An- 

 twerp in the year l6co ; and became the pupil of Soutman, 

 whofe ftyle he always copied. He drew correal/, and 

 treated the naked parts, and efpecially the extremities of the 

 human iigure, -.vitli intelligence. He engraved in a neat 

 laboured llyle, efpecially his portraits after Vandyke and 

 Rubens, among which the following will be found moll 

 ■worthy of notice. 



Portraits. — Paracelfus, the celebrated phvlician, in folio; 

 the emperor Adolphus of NafTau, in large folio ; Maiianna 

 tie Bavaria, wife of the emperor Ferdinand ; Henry, count 

 of Naflau, and Philip of Naflau, prince of Orange, both 

 in large folio ; and all from Soutman. The emperor 

 Charles V., frura Rubens ; cardinal Ferdinand, brother of 

 Philip IV. governor of the Low Countries, from'Van- 

 tiyke; Ifabella Clara Eugenia, infanta of Spain; Gallon 

 John Baptilf, duko of Orleans, brother of Louis XIH. 

 and Margaret his wife, all from Vandyke. Philip the 

 Hardy, duke of Burgundy, from Van Eyk ; Frederic 

 Henrv, of Naffai:, from G. Hontlioril ; all of large folio 

 dimenfions. 

 ' Hifiorical Siiljeas. — " Chrift on the Crofs," a large 

 upright plate, arched at the top ; " Chnlt Gnung with the 

 Pilgrims at Emmaus,'' in folio, nearly fquare ; " Erich- 

 tonius in the BaO^et, difcovered by Aglaurus and his Sif- 

 ters," all from Rubens, and " Ision deceived by Juno," 

 from the fame painter ; all in large folio. 



William de Leeuw was born at Antwerp, A.D. 1600. 

 and fiouriflied in the Netherlands in 1650. He was a pupil 

 of Soutmans, but did not engrave in his ftyle ; inftead of 

 which he employed fhort playful ftrokes, which produced a 

 pifturefque effect, united With a tolerably good chiarofcuro. 

 Moll of his engravings are from Rubens or Rembrandt, 

 but in a fet of large landfcapes after Nieulandt he has quite 

 altered his manner of execution, and engraved the ground 

 and Iky m a manner fo delicate, that it requires good eyes 

 to dillinguilh it from a tint of Indian ink. 



De Leeuw commonly marked his prints with his initials, or 

 a monogram, which will be found in P!ate\l\. of thbfe ufed 

 by the engravers of the Low Countries. The following are 

 afeleclion of his bell works : " Lot and his Daughters," in 

 foho (the bed impreffions of this place are before the name 

 of C. Dankerts was inferted) ; " Daniel in the Lion's Den," 

 in large folio ; the Holy Virgin kneeling-, Uipported by 

 angels, commonly called " The Virgin of Grief," a very 

 rare print, in folio; " The Martyrdom of St. Catherine," 

 a very fine and rr.re print, all after Rubens, and a fet of 

 four chafes, from the fame painter, namely, the chace of 

 a lion and lionefs ; ditto of a wolf; ditto of a wild boar; 

 ditto of a crocodile and hippopotamus ; all in very large 

 folio. •' Tobit and his Wife," in fjlio, from Rembrandt. 

 This print is executed in a very good talle, and has a fine ef- 

 fect. " David playing the Harp before King Saul ;" a half- 

 length profile of Rembrandt's wife, both in large folio : 

 the portrait of a female veiled, at the bottom of the print 

 ''Marianne" is infcribed in capital letters ; aU after Rem- 

 brandt. A you.ig man habited in a cloak, and a hat and 

 feathers, in Imall folio ; "St. Francis meditating," a half- 

 length profile, from Livens, in folio. And the following 

 fet iu krge folio, fr«cQ Nieulandt, wbic!» are very rare ami 



beautifully executed. A view in the Tyrol, with water, 

 calcades, and travellers. Another fcene in the mountains 

 of Tyrol, with travellers on horfeback ; to the right a 

 high mountain is crowned with the ruins of a temple, and 

 On the plain below is a hermitage and two figures. A land- 

 fcape of the fame character as the former, with wood and 

 water ; cows feeding on a plain and the effect of fun-fet. 

 And another with filhers, and men on horfeback : on an 

 eminence towards the right is a church, and on the plain be- 

 low a village and (heep feeding. 



John Louys, or Loys, was born at Antwerp, A.D. 

 1600, he was the dlfciple of Soutman, and engraved chiefly 

 after the pid'.u'cs of Rubens and Vandvkc. There is a 

 very fine engraving by him, with a powerfi'l chiarofcuro, 

 of " The Refurredtion of Lazarus," from J. Livens, which 

 is generally and juftly regarded as his mallcrpiece. From 

 among the works of this artift, the following are moll worthy 

 of feleftion. 



Portraits. — Phihp the Good, duke of Burgundy, from 

 Soutman ; Lous XIII. of France, from Rubens, and its 

 companion, Ann of Auftria ; Philip IV. king of Spain, 

 from Rubens, and its companion, Elizabeth of Bourbon, 

 his queen ; and Francis '^homas of Savoy, prince of Carig- 

 nano, from Ant. Vandyke ; all of large foho dimenfions. 



HiJlor!cal,lsfc. — " The Refuireftion of Lazarus," ^which 

 is mentioned above ;) "The Repofe of Diana, or the Re- 

 turn from the Chace," from Rubens ; " The Iniide of a 

 Flemilh Cottage, with a Wom.an fcouring a Cauldron," after 

 Ollade ; " Peafants regaling,'' and " The Chefnut 

 Seller," after the fame mafler, all in quarto ; and " The 

 Interior of a Dutch Kitchen," in which the principal ob- 

 ject is a dead pig hanging up; in folio, after W. Kalf. 



Jonas Suyderhoef, of Leyden, was another of the dif- 

 ciples of Soutman, born in the fame year with the pre- 

 ceding artitl, but of very fuperior abilities. 



Suyderhoef purfued the llyle of engraving which had 

 been invented or adopted by his mafler, but, by degrees, 

 far furpafl'ed him in the foftnefs and beauty of his finidiing, 1 

 He had the art of uniting great force, as well as harmony 

 of chiarofcuro, with conllderable neatnefs of execution, and, 

 where his fubjedt required it, with great exaftitude of de-, 

 tail. His engravings are jullly held in elleem by the ex- 

 perienced colledtor, and by all men of tafle. His portraits, 

 of which he executed a confiderable nurr.ber, are exceed- 

 ingly beautiful, and probably, on the whole, fuperior to his 

 hillorical works. His practice was, to bring them very 

 forward in the etchifig, and afterwards flrengthen them, 

 where deeper fliadows were required, with the graver ; im- 

 parting to them, at the lame time, amenity of tone, and 

 greater accuracy of refemblance. Perhaps we ought to 

 except from this general preference, his " Treaty of Mun- 

 fter," rfttr Gerard Terburgh, which is truly an hittorical 

 engraving, though it confifls of an affemblage of the por- 

 traits of the moll celebrated flatefmen of Europe, and cf 

 the age when that important treaty was concluded. The 

 exquifite pidnre, from which this plate was engraven, 

 which form its rare merits, and its importance as a diplo- 

 matic and hifiorical event, ought always to adorn a royal 

 or a national gallery, was lately brought to this country, by 

 Mr. de la Hante, and is probably Hill in Pail-mali, in that 

 gentleman's poffefTion. Not only the perfon and drcfs of 

 every plenipotentiary who was prefent on that memorable 

 occafion, are here pourtrayed with the utmofl delicacy of 

 finifh, but the place of meeting alfo, with every minutis 

 of coflume. 



The profeffional diligence of Suyderhoef was fearcely 

 inferior to his extraordinary merit : this merit has, to a 



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