LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE 



fucceeded in fmalllandfcapcs, with figures and animals. He 

 likewife engraved a few portraits, which he marked with his 

 name at length, or fomctimes with a moriojrram, compofed 

 of C. and V. for Claus or Claas, being the Dutch abbre- 

 viation of Nicholas, and which will be found in Plate III. 

 of thofe ufed by the engravei-s of the Low Countries. 



The following of his engravings are moil worthy the at- 

 tention of the coUeftor. William Laud, Archbifliop of 

 Canterbury ; Charles L of England, in a large round 

 hat, both ni 4to. ; John Calvin, in folio ; Didier Erafmus 

 of Rotterdam, from Hans Holbein ; .lames H. of England, 

 and James, duke of Monmouth and Buccleugh, both in 

 large folio. 



Etchings. — '• The Tab^e of Cebes," an allegorical fubjeft 

 on human lite, in large folio ; " The Execution of the 

 State Criminals, of the Seft of Arminians, at the Hague," 

 in folio ; two landfcapes with Dutch callles, in large 

 folio ; and a view of the caflle and environs of Loven- 

 fteyn, which was ufed as a prifon. At the bottom of the 

 print is a perfpetlive view of the caltle in the form of a 

 frieze ; and on each fide a medallion. This is a folio print, 

 very rare, and beautifully executed. 



Peter Nolpe was born at the Hague, A. D. 1601. The 

 circumllances of his life are rather obfcure, but his works 

 prove him to have been a man of talent. He is fpoken of 

 as a painter ; but apparently his engravings are far more nu- 

 merous than his piftures. He worked with the point and 

 graver, and generally united them ; but fome of his plates 

 are executed with the graver only, which inftrument he 

 handled with much more facility than tafte. He engraved por- 

 trait, hillory, and lahdfcape, but excelled mod in the latter, 

 for he was but imperfectly mailer of the human form, whereas 

 his landfcapes poifefs a certain air of boldnefs and freedom, 

 which manifeft a praftifed hand, though not a mind of pro- 

 found information. 



The moll valuable of his works are the portraits of John 

 Adler Salvius, a miniller plenipotentiary to the court of 

 Sweden, in 410. A fet of eight horfemen, in 8vo. ; very 

 rare etchings. A fet of eighteen etchings of beggars, in 

 4to. after Qnaft, of whom we fliall fpeak anon, and treated 

 in his manner. " The Angel delivering St. Peter from 

 Prifon," after J. V. Vucht, in folio ; " Judah and Tamar," 

 in a landfcape of large folio fize. The fame figures he after- 

 wards introduced into a landfcape of a much fmaller fcale. 

 " An Inundation," occafioned by the burllmg of a water- 

 bank. This is a very fcarce print, executed with much 

 " force. " Daniel in the Lion's Den," after Blanchard ; 

 " The Voyage of his Majelly, the King of Great Britain, 

 to the Coafts of Holland." An emblematical print on the 

 marriage of the prince of Orange, with the princefs 

 Mary of England. A fet of fix landfcapes', after 'Van 

 Nieulant. Six ditto, which are efteemed beautiful, after 

 Rogman, all in folio. The ;#bmainder are of larger folio di- 

 menfions. A view of the guard-houfe at Amftcl, near Am- 

 rterdam ; eight of the months of the year, which are very 

 beautiful, with fine efFefts. A fet of the four feafons; an- 

 other of the four elements, from Peter Potter ; " The Pro- 

 phet Elias, with the Widow of Sarepta ;" " St. Paul the 

 Hermit fed in the Wildernefs by an Eagle," both in large 

 folio ; and .1 very capital print, engraved on five plates, after 

 C. Molyn the y-junger, of "The Cavalcade made by the Citi- 

 zens of Amllerdani, on the Entrance of Mary of Mcdicis ;" 

 fome of which he marked with a monogram which is copied in 

 Plate III of thofe ufed by the arcills of the Netherlands. 



Peter Quad. There is a certain fanciful quaintncfs about 

 this artill, of a diverting kind. The grotelque quirks of 

 his morricc-dancing beggars are perfectly homogeneous with 



the twirUng Q's in his various monograms, and makes qi 

 anticipate fomething entertaining ui the hillory of his privsatc 

 life, of which alas ! we know nothing, but that he was 

 born at the Hague in the year 1602, and was the intimate 

 friend of Nolpe, whom wc have jaft difmilfed. 



He defigned and engraved groups of peafants, battles, 

 beggars, and barbers' (hops, and even in his battles there is 

 fomething aUied to drollery. His talents, in many refpefts, 

 were but little inferior to thole of Callot, with whom he 

 was contemporary, and to whom, in the management of his 

 tools and ftyle of engraving, he bore a remarkable re- 

 femblance. 



The monograms of Quad may be feen in Plate III. of 

 thofe of the engravers ot the Netherlands, and his principal 

 works, are, " Fyf finnen te Koop," (or the five fenfes) 

 in oftavo, dated 1638 ; the four feafons, perfonified by 

 grotefque ligures, in quarto. A fet of twelve plates of 

 Capriccio and grotefque figures, in 8vo. Another fet of 

 Capriccio, of whicli the fubjedts are beggars, old women, 

 and oddities, fuperfcribed on the title page " Tis all ver- 

 vart Gaeien :" this fet confifts of twenty-fix plates in 4to. 

 Another fet of ten quarto plates of beggars, with quizzical 

 names and correfpondiug landfcape back-grounds; and a fet 

 of twelve plates in 4'0. of whimfical modes and fafliions, in 

 the talte of the noblelfe of Callot. 



Francis Vander Steen was born at Antwerp, A. D. 

 1604, and having in his youth loll the ufe of one of his 

 legs by an acciilent, his parents thought of fine art as a 

 profitable or pleafant occupation ; and if a corredt judgment 

 may be formed by his luccefs, moll probably the former; 

 for he obtained high patronage, though he polfeffed not 

 much merit. The archduke Leopold afligned him a pcn- 

 ilon, which was continued by Ferdinand III- 



His engravings, however, of which the following are the 

 chief, find their way into the port-folios of thofe who col- 

 left the produftions of this fchool, either on account of their 

 fubjefts or fnppofed merits. 



Portraits Cornehus Cort, in 8vo. ; Theodore Coorn- 



haert, in 410., both celebrated engravers ; Andrea del 

 V'aulx, or 'Vallenfis, profeffor at the academy of Louvain, 

 in 4to. ; and George Seballian Lubomirflii, count of Wif- 

 niez, Herdt. del ; in folio. 



Hyiorical, ISjc. after ■various Majlers. — " The Holy Fa- 

 mily," where the intant John prefents flowers to Chrift, trom 

 Titian; " The Holy Family," with St . Jofeph fealed on a 

 fack. This fubjeft is called in Italy "La Madonna del Sacco," 

 from Andrea del Sarto, and has fince been engraved by Bar- 

 tolozzi and by Raphael Morj^hen. " The Dream of Michael 

 Angelo," from Michael Angelo ; " Soldiers playing at 

 Cards," from Manfredi, all in folio ; " A Man holding a 

 Flagijon and a Cup, in company with another Man," in 410. ; 

 " A Peafar-it leated, reading the Newfpaper, whilll an old- 

 Woman careffes him with one Hand and holds a Pot of Beer 

 in the other ;'' " A Village Party." of quarto fize ; " The' 

 Mifer and his Wife counting their Gold," in folio, allaftcr' 

 Teiiiers ; " A drunken Silenus fupported by Satyrs and 

 Bacchanals," from Vandyke; " ACupid forming a Bow from 

 the Club ot Hercules," after Correggio, in foiio. At the 

 bottom of the print are two children, one of whom cries and 

 the other laughs. " Jupiter and lo ;" " The Rape of Ga- 

 nymede." Thefe three engravings are very rare, from the 

 piftures of Correggio in the gallery of Vienna, and at the 

 fale of Mariette's coileftion were fold for two hundred and- 

 fifty livres. " The Martyrdom of eleven thoufand Vir- 

 gins," engraved on four plates from the drawings of Van- 

 Hoy, after the original piftures by Albert Durer ; " St.- 

 Pepin and St. Begue," half-length figures on the famo- 



plate. 



