LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



prince of Wales, and feveral of the nohility. Lievcns made 

 a confidcrahle number o.f engravings and etchings, fomcwhat 

 in the ilyle of .Rembrandt, fcarccly lefs piilurefque, but 

 coarfer, and in general lefs fniifhod ; but he always managed 

 his cliiarofcuro (o as to produce a very good effeft. 



Adam Bartfch informs us, that Lievens drew more cor- 

 retlly than Rembrandt, (which he might eafily do,) but 

 did not engrave in fo pidurefque a (lyle : thole plates which 

 he meant to fm\(\\ highly ho execnted with a very delicate 

 touch, and fometimes he ufed to hatch fo clofe, that the 

 aquafortis bit his hnes nearly into a blot ; for inftance, thofe 

 which are on the fore-ground of " The Refurrcdlion of 

 Lazarus." It does not appear that this artift made much 

 nfe of the dry point, but frequently ufed the graver to 

 llrengthen the ftrolces. His print of St. Jerome is ftrongly 

 retouched with that tool, and two of his fined portraits, 

 thofe of Daniel Heinfius, and Jacques Gouter, are wliolly 

 executed with the graver ; tliey are in a very pifturefque 

 ftyle, and bear fome refemblance to etching. He marked 

 his prints either with his initials, or his name, which he 

 fometimes fpelled Lyvyns. The following are a fcleftion of 

 thofe engravings by this mafter, which are moll worthy the 

 •notice of the coUeiftor. 



Portraits and Heads. — Doftor Ephraim Bonus, a half 

 figure feated ; Jood, or Julius Vondel, a Dutch poet ; 

 Daniel Heinfius, profeffor of hiftory and politics at Ley- 

 den ; Jacobus Gouter, the Englilh mufician, a half figure, 

 with a lute, all in folio ; an old man with his head fliavcd 

 and a long beard, taken for the portrait of Conrad Leo- 

 nard, an early preacher of the gofpt-1 in Greece ; the pro- 

 file of an old man, with a long beard ; bull of a man with 

 a turban on, very fine, after Rembrandt ; ditto of a man, 

 ■with long hair ; half-length figure of a woman, with long 

 hair ; bull of a young man, with an open robe, in the Ilyle 

 of Rembrandt, all in quarto ; ditto of a man, with a bonnet 

 on, in the tafte of Rembrandt, in i2mo; profile of an old 

 man, with a Ihort beard ; profile of an old man, with a 

 long and pointed beard ; a half-length portrait of an old 

 man feated, all in quarto ; bull of an old man, with a fliort 

 beard and bald head, in oftavo ; ditto of a Perfian, with a 

 cap and robe ; ditto of a man, with curly hair ; profile of 

 a man, with a hat on ; ditto of an old man, with a little 

 cap on ; ditto of an old woman, with a veil on, in the ilyle 

 of Rembrandt ; ditto of a young woman, with a pearl 

 ornament on her head ; profile of a woman, with her hair 

 faUing on her flioulders ; head of a young woman, with the 

 charaiiler of a negro, all in l2mo. ; bud of a Capuchin, 

 with a long pointed beard, and a hat and mantle, in 

 folio. 



H'l/lorical, ef^.— "The Virgin and Infant Chrill," with 

 St. Joleph, and various other figures, in o£lavo ; " The 

 Virgin and Infant Chrift," to whom (lie prefents a pear; 

 " The Refurreftion of Lazarus," a grand compofition, in 

 folio ; " St. John the Evangeliil feated at the Foot of a 

 Tree, with a Book," in quarto ; " St. Jerom feated in his 

 Cell, holding a Crucifix and a Skull," in folio ; " St. Fran- 

 cis in his Cell, meditating," in large quarto ; " The An- 

 chorite," or St. Francis, differing very little from the pre- 

 ceding engraving, in quarto ; " St. Anthony feated, with 

 a long Beard, and a Capuchin Cowl," in folio, very rare ; 

 " Mercury and vVrgus," iu large quarto ; " Jacob perform- 

 ing a Sacrifice ;" an eaftern figure in a cloak ; bull of a 

 man in eaftern attire, with a chain round his neck, in folio, 

 both on fhadowed grounds ; bull of a man with long curly 

 hair falling on his fhoulders, in large 410. ; an engraving 

 of three trees, without any back-ground, in folio : both 

 •tliefe engravings are executed on wood, but do not poflefs 



any great fliare of merit. " Death ftriking two Peafantr-," 

 who are reprcfented gaming and quarrelling, of folio fize. 



Erafmus Quellinus was born at Antwerp in the year 

 1607, and died in the fame city, in the cloiller to whicli 

 he had retired in 1678. He (hewed an inclination early 

 in life for the arts, and (ludied under Rubrns : he became 

 an hillorical painter of confiderable merit, and likewifc exe- 

 cut.'d feme landfcapes in a very mafterly ftylc. Quellinus 

 etched fome plates from his own compolitions and thofe of 

 Rubens, of which it may be fuflieient to fpecify the fol- 

 lowing : Erafmus Quellinus, which was puhlillied with an 

 account of his life in the French language, in quarto ; a 

 folio landfcape, with a dance of fatyrs and children, rare ; 

 " Sampfon killing the Lion," in quarto, from Rubuns ; 

 and "The Holy Virgin and Child," in foho, after Rubens. 



Hubert Quellinus was born at Antwerp in 1608 ; he 

 was of the fame family as the preceding artill, and brother 

 to Artus Quellinus the fculptor. Hubert engraved fcme- 

 v.-hat in the Ilyle of Soutman, bringing his plates very for- 

 ward in the etching, and finifliing them with the graver in 

 a very neat pleafing (lyle. 



He ufnally marked thofe plates which he engraved from 

 the fculpture of his brother with the initials of Artus, as 

 well as his own. The following are feledted from the works 

 of this artift as being mod worthy of attention. 



A fet of the ilatues which his brother Artus executed 

 in marble, for the Stadthoi;fe of Amilerdam, after the 

 drawings of John Bcnnokel, in a folio volume. The por- 

 trait of Artus Quellinus, aifo in folio; a fulfome piece of 

 adulation offered to Philip IV. of Spain, who is reprefentcd 

 on his throne, furrounded by allegorical virtues, &;c. ; " The 

 Judgment of Solomon ;" "The L'giflator Zaleucus redeem- 

 ing the Penalty of his Son ;" " The Province of Holland," 

 perlonified and furrounded with emblematical figure.s ; and a 

 fet of twelve plates of naval and military triumphs, and oflicr 

 decorative ornaments of the Sladthoufe at Amftcrdam, all 

 of folio dimenfions. 



Theodore van Thulden, of Dutch anceftry, was born at 

 Bois-le-Duc in the year 1607 ; but became the difciple of 

 Rubens, whom he accompanied to Paris, and affillt-d in his 

 grand undertaking of the Luxembourg gallery. 



He painted a few other pidlures which are defervedly 

 held in elleem, and etched a confiderable ntimber of plates 

 in a firm, clear, and determined, but flight ilyle. 



In his praife as an engraver, much cannot be faid. His 

 chiarofcuro is but feeble; to exprcfiion of the textures of 

 fubdances, he gave little heed, and his drawing is fo man- 

 nered, that the fpeclator of obfervation eafily traces in his 

 prints the fame hand, though working alter very difierent 

 niaftcrs. 



He engraved the principal events in the life of St. Jolin 

 of Matha, in a fet of twenty-four (mall folio plates, from 

 pidlures with which he adorned the church ot the Mathurins 

 at Paris; "The Hillory of Ulyffes," on fifty-eight fniall 

 plates, from the pittures of Primaticcio at Fontrtinbleau ; 

 " The triumphal F^ntry of the Infanta Ferdinand into the 

 City of Antwerp," on eight folio plates, after Rubens; 

 a fet of fix fmaller plates, Irom the parable of " The Pro- 

 digal Son," after the fame mailer, befide other works of 

 inferior importance. 



Janus, or John Lutma, was a goldfmlth of Amfterdam, 

 who didinguilfied himfelf by the invention of a new mode of 

 art, which had its day of novelty, and was for a time popu- 

 lar among fuperficial connoifieurs ; it was termed Opus 

 Mallei, being performed with a hammer, and fmall pointed 

 punches, which made an imprefiion upon the copper, and 

 by being repeated as occalion requirfd, the (hadows were 



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