LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



with the purfuits of art, Molyn (lands conviftctl of the full 

 amount of its enormity. He was difcovertd, fei/ed, im- 

 prifoned, tried, and capitally condemned. The greatnefs 

 of his merit, however, as an artift, caufcd his fentence to 

 be mitigated. He ranfomed his life with the lofs of his 

 liberty, endured an imprifonment of fixteen years, and in 

 all probability would have ended his days in captivity, but 

 that the bombardment of Genoa by Louis XIV. afforded 

 ■ him an opportunity, which lie failed not to embrace, of 

 efcaping to Placentia. 



During his confinement, he confoled himfelf with his 

 profeffional purfuits, and probably executed fome of the 

 engravings which have been aicribed to him. Of thefe we 

 are only able to particularife one which is in a ftyle refcm- 

 bUng that of the elder Molyn and John van de Velde, the 

 fubjeft is a niafquerade by candle-light, with a fort of mock, 

 proceflion in the back-ground. Tempefta died in the year 

 1710. 



Albert Flamen was born in the year 1600, but in what 

 part of Flanders we are unable to fay. He acquired fome 

 reputation as a painter of landfcape and IHll-life, but from 

 the number of excellent prints he produced, is better known 

 as an engraver. At one period of his life he refided at 

 Paris. 



His prints are for the moft part etchings, performed in a 

 mailerly and fpirited ftyle, and finifhed with fmall affillance 

 from the graver. They are marked with the monogram 

 which may be feen in our Piste HI. of tliofe ufed by the 

 engravers of the Low Countries, and conlill principally of 

 four fets of various fidt, with landfcape back-grounds, of 

 fea-pons, &c. engraved on forty-eiglit plates ; a fet of 

 feven landfcapes and figures; a fet of four views ofConflans, 

 Pernay, Marconfli, and the Port a I'Anglois, all in large 

 quarto ; and a folio print of the encampment at the Faux- 

 bourg de St. Victor. 



Claas, or Nicholas, Wieringen, was born at Haerlem 

 fome time about the commencement of the feventeenth cen- 

 tury. He was fent to fea in his youth ; employed much 

 of his time in ftudying marine objecls ; and after making a 

 few voyages, fettled on fliore, and became a painter and 

 engraver of (hipping and other marine fubjefts. 



His prints confift of etchings wliich difplay much talent 

 and feeling for art, and the fubjects of which are fea views 

 and landfcapes, either drawn from iiature or engraved from 

 his owncompofitions; a fet of fix landfcapes of village fcenery, 

 with ruftic figures, &c. in quarto, are very excellent plates, 

 and are all we are able to fpecify of the works on copper 

 of this mafter. 



Contemporary with Wieringen was Claas, or Nicholas, 

 Moojaert, or Mooyaert of Holland, the happy imitator of 

 EKhiemer, and the inftrutlor of Berghem. Vander Does, 

 Koningh, and Weenix. The name of this artift has been 

 varioufly fpelled, and his hiftory is obfcure ; BafTan firft calls 

 him Nicolas Moojaert of Amfterdam, and afterward Claas 

 Moyard, a Dutch painter. 



He etched feveral plates in a ftyle bearing fome refem- 

 blance to that of Rembrandt, and as far as is -known, 

 worked entirely from his own compofitions. Among his 

 beft prints are a fet of fix plates of animals, etched in ap- 

 parent imitation of Swaneveldt ; " Lot and his Da"ghters," 

 in that of Elfhiemer, and a landfcape with cows and (heep, 

 of various quarto dimenfioas. 



Chriftian Louis Moyart was a native of the Netherlands, 

 the time and place of whofe birth are not known, but who 

 was refiding and praftifing engraving in the city of Amfter- 

 dam in the year 1630. 

 - Among a few uther works of no very extraordinary 



merit, he produced a fet of monftrous allegorical compli- 

 ments, of folio dimenlions, wherein Hercules and Minerva 

 appear quite out of their element, and which is entitled '• An 

 emblematical Ilillory of Queen Mary de Medicis." Moy- 

 art marked his plates with a monogram which will be found 

 in our Plate HL of thofe ufed by the engravers of the Lowr 

 Countries. 



Mathew Montague, otherwife Plattenberg, was born at 

 Antwerp in the year i6oo, and died at Paris in 1666. He 

 went at an early age to Italy, and made a long (lay at Flo- 

 rence, where he engraved in concert with his countryman 

 •John Affelin. From thence he journeyed to Paris, where, 

 for reafons which we are unable to ftate, he changed his 

 name from Plattenberg, to Plattemontagne, and afterwards 

 to Montague. He painted (hipping, fea-views, and land- 

 fcapes, in a very good Ilyle, and acquired great reputation. 

 Montague likcwifc etched fome few plates of landfcapes 

 and fea-views, from his own pifturea, in a ftyle refeinbling 

 that of Fouquieres ; of which the principal are as follow ; 

 a landfcape with buildings and figures ; a fea-port, with 

 veftels and figures, both of folio lize ; a pair of circular 

 prints, one reprelenting velfels on the fea, and a hght-houfe 

 on a mountain; the other a landfcape with wood and water; 

 a pair of landfcapes, one of which is ornamented with figures 

 cutting wood ; the other a canal with watermen, and a vil- 

 lage, all in folio ; and another pair, one of which has a 

 village, trees, and three fmall figures on the fore-ground ; 

 the other conlills of ruins and trees, without figures, in 

 quarto ; they are all marked M. Montagne in. et fee. 



Nicolas Montagne, the fon ot Mathew, was born in the 

 year 1631, and died at Paris in 1706. He ftudied painting 

 under Philip Champagne, to whom he was related ; and 

 engraving under Morin, whole ftyle he improved upon. He 

 painted portraits and hillory with fuccefs, and in 1681 he 

 was chofen profefTor of painting of the Royal Aca'demy at 

 Paris. The moft confidurable work he engraved was a fet 

 of portraits, on which v.e find his name infcribed, Nicolas 

 de Plattemontagne. He drew the human figure very cor- 

 reftly, and his plates pofTefs a very agreeable effeft ; we 

 (hall mention the following only, " Oliver de Callella," a 

 lieutenant-general, killed at the fiege of Tarragone in 1644, 

 in large folio ; " St. Genevieve," a whole length figure, after 

 Ph. de Champagne, in folio ; and " A dead Chrill," from 

 the fame painter ; the figure is finely drawn, and the flefti 

 executed with dots only, but the back-ground and drapery 

 are finifhed with ftrokes in a bold and free Ilyle, and is alto- 

 gether a print of confiderable merit. 



William Akerfloot was born at Haerlem foon after the 

 commencement of the feventeenth cenfury. Under whom 

 he ftudied is not known, nor are his works entitled to rank 

 above mediocrity. 



He engraved portraits and hiftorical fubjefts, and 

 among others the following ; Frederic Henry, prince of 

 Orange, in folio ; AmeUa, princefs of Orange, between her 

 daughters, with a cattle and figures in the back-ground, 

 both after A. van der Venne ; " Chrift in the Garden of 

 OHves," after H. Hondius ; " Chrift loaded with Chains," 

 after P. Molyn; " The Denial of St. Peter," after the 

 fame painter ; and a large cartouche, with vefTels on the 

 fea, all in folio. 



Mofes Uytenbroeck, furnamed Little Mofes, was born 

 at the Hague iu the year i6oo. It is prefumed he was 

 the difciple of C, Poelenbourg, in whofe ftyle he compufed, 

 and fometimes fo exactly imitated him, that his pictures 

 have been fold for the works of that artift. He painted 

 landfcapes, which he ufually embellilhed with fubjefts taken 

 from the Greek and Roman poets. We have by this mafter 



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