LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



ceiver Utenbogaerd : towards the right hand of the print is 

 a canal, with buildings, and two villages in the back-ground, 

 both in large 4to. 



Portraits of Men, — An old man, with a long grey beard, 

 a very fine portrait, though left unfinifhed at the death of 

 Renibr.indt. G. F. Schmidt purchafed the plate and 

 finifhed it. A man with a chain and crofs, in the aft of 

 writing ; John Antonides vander Linden, profelFor and 

 doftor of medicine at the univeriity of Leyden, in his robes 

 of ceremony, a very fine uortrait ; James Silvius, clergy- 

 man of Amfterdam, in robes trimmed with fur, feated at a 

 table, all in ^.to. ; a young man feated, meditating : he has 

 on a robe trimmed with fur, in 8vo. ; the Jew Manafleh 

 Ben Ifrael, a commentator on many of the vifions of the 

 prophets : I'.e is reprefented with a pointed beard, and a hat 

 with a large round border. Doftor Fauftus, (whom Ger- 

 faint calls Fautricus,) a profile, down to the waift, is 

 drefled in a robe, and wears a white hat : he is in the aft of 

 examining magical charafters, a very rare portrait. Renier 

 Anfloo, an anabaptift, feated before a table, writing, with a 

 hat on ; his gown is bordered with fur. This is the moil: 

 finifiied and the fined portrait we have from the point of 

 Rembrandt. Clement de Jonge, a print-feller, feated in an 

 eafy chair, with a hat on, and his hair plaited : this plate is 

 arched at the top. Abraham France, an amateur of en- 

 gravings, feated at a table, examining a print ; the elder 

 Haring, with a leathern cap on ; the younger Haring, fon 

 of the preceding, feated; John Lutma, a famous goldfmith 

 of Groningen, one of the fineil portraits of Rembrasdt : he 

 holds in his hand a little figure of metal, all in 410. John 

 Affelin, a painter of Antwerp, known in Holland by the 

 name of " Crabbetje," or little John: it is a half-length 

 portrait, with long hair, and a hat on : before him is a table, 

 with a paletce and books, in folio. Ephraim Bonus, a 

 Jewirti phyfician, with a hat on, in the aft of defcending a 

 ftair-cafe. This is one of the beft of Rembrandt's portraits, 

 all in 4to. Utenbogardus, a minifler of Holland, in an oval, 

 oil an oftagon plate : he is feated at a table, with an open 

 book before him, and has on his head a leathern cap, in folio. 

 John Cornelius Silvius, in an oval, around which is infcribed 

 " Spes mea Chriftus. Johannes Cornely Sylvius. Amftelo- 

 damo bat. funftus S. S. Minit!^. aos 45 et 6. menfes. In 

 Frifia, in Tyemarum et Phirugura aos 4," &c. Utenbo- 

 gaerd, the banker and receiver of the dates of Holland, 

 commonly called " the gold-weigher ;" the little Coppenol, 

 the Dutch writmg-mader ; the great Coppenol, both very 

 rare prints, all in folio; the lawyer Tolling, a very fine and 

 rare portrait : he is reprefented feated at a table with books, 

 in large 4to. The burgomafter, John Six : this celebrated 

 portrait is very rare, and fold at Mr. Grode's fale, fome 

 years fince, for five-and-thirty guineas. It is faid, there is 

 an imprelTion of this plate without the names of the burgo- 

 mafter or Rembrandt, in folio. 



Iiieal Heads of Men. — An eaftern figure, with a little cap 

 on, and ihort hair, covered with a fur gow n ; a profile, 

 with a turban on ; an eaitern figure, with a long beard, in 

 a turban, very rare. Thefe are all marked " Rembrandt 

 Venetiis, 1^)35 :" and it is faid that he fo marked uhem, to 

 make the amateurs believe that he had been at Venice. Bud 

 of a man with a (liort curly beard, in a black gown ; buft 

 of an old man, with a long beard, whofe head is reclining as 

 if he fiept ; an old man, with a long grey beard, and very 

 little hair on his head, habited in a long robe, in 8vo. ; a 

 young man, half-length, in profile ; bud of an old man, v^ith 

 a fquare cut beard, with a velvet cap on ; a man, witli muf- 

 tachios, half-length, with a hat on, and a gown trimmed 

 with fur ; a half-lengtk portrait of a man feated, at an eafel 



painting, infcribed " W. Droft," mod probably the por- 

 trait of Rembrandt's pupil, Drod, very rare ; the bud of a 

 young man, with long hair, engraved on a white ground, 

 fuppofed to be Titus, the fon of Rembrandt, in 410., rare; 

 a half-leiigth profile of a man, with the phyfiognomy of a 

 negioc, with a turban on, in 410. ; a philofopher, with a 

 fable, a long fquire bearded head, with a fur cap on. 



Femak Portraits.— K three-quarter view of a young 

 Jewefs, feated, in folio ; the little Jcwefs, newly married, 

 three-quarter, with long hair hanging on her dioulders ; two 

 portraits of old women, in black veils, very highly finidied, 

 in 4to. ; " The Reader," a young woman feated at a table, 

 reading, a very good engraving ; and its companion, an old 

 woman, reading, in 410. ; a half-length profile of a lady 

 with her hair dreffed with beads, in 8vo. ; an old woman, 

 with her hair dreffed in the eadern ftyle, feated. It is en- 

 graved in fo delicate a dyle, that a clear impreflion is feldom 

 met with. A bud of the mother of Rembrandt, with her 

 hair dreded, in a black veil ; an old woman afleep, reding 

 her head on her hand, dreded in a turban ; bud of an old 

 woman, three-quarters, in a black veil, engraved in a broad 

 dyle, in i2mo., very rare ; the profile of a young girl in a 

 hat : die holds a baflcet acrofs one arm, and a purfe in the 

 other hand. A nearly profile head, in a veil turned up, and 

 a feather, in 8vo. ; an old woman with fpeftacles, a half- 

 length profile, reading, a very fpirited engraving, and very 

 rare. 



Studies and Sietehes, yc— Several ftudies engraved on the 

 fame plate, among others we difcover a head of Rembrandt 

 himfelf ; a clump of budies, furrounded with a wall, a horle, 

 and feveral heads, very rar# ; dudy of fix heads, among 

 which is the wife of Rembrandt ; ditto of five heads of men ; 

 ditto of three female heads, a very fpirited engraving ; a 

 plate of itudies of various heads and figures ; fet of ditto, 

 among which we didinguidi the head of Rembrandt, with 

 other figures : this is very freely engraven, and is one of the 

 rared of the dudies of Rembrandt. A very tadeful un- 

 finidied engraving of various objefts, and a tree, very in- 

 definite, in i2mo. ; profiles of three old men's heads, in 8va. 

 All the preceding are of quarto fize. 



Doubtful Suhjeffs. — " King David kneeling, at Devotion, 

 crowned ;" " A Repofe during the Flight into Egypt," 

 with the effect of night ; the Holy Family are feated on a 

 bank at the foot of a tree, to which is fadened a lanthorn, 

 which cads a glimmering light over the whole fcene, in 

 oftavo. " Jefus Chrid taken to Calvary," a very rich 

 compofition ; " A Skirmidi, or Village Fair," a very fine 

 engraving, in a flight dyle ; on the fore-ground is a rat- 

 catcher holding a baflcet on the end of a long dick, with 

 rats in it. A buft of a man, w.tii a bandolier on his dioulder, 

 with a double clafp of precious Itones ; " The Pen maker," 

 an old man feated at a de{l<, with fpeftacles on, mending his 

 pen ; " The young Scholar," feated on a done at the foot 

 of a tree writing, very rare ; bud of an old man laughing, 

 with a little hat on : this is executed entirely with the dry 

 point, and finifhed in a very good dyle, all in 410. Klaas 

 van Ryn feated, with a long beard, inlcnbed on the mar- 

 gin w^ith his name, in 1 2mo. ; and three dromedaries, fol- 

 lowed by two camels, with eadern trappings, engraved in a 

 free fpirited dyle. 



John Lievens, Livens, or Lyvyns, was born at Ley- 

 den in the year 1607. He became the pupil of George 

 van Schooten, and afterwards of Peter Laltman. He ex- 

 celled principally in painting portraits, but likewile exe- 

 cuted fome hidorical piftures with great fuccefs. In the 

 year 1630, he came into England, where he refided threa 

 years, and painted the portraits of Charles I., the queen, the 



prince 



