LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



In:;?aTid with queen Catherine, and refided here till the time 

 of his death, which happened in 1 686. 



This artul engraved feveral plates, after his own compo- 

 fitions and thofe of Barlow. They are executed with great 

 fpirit, in a ilyle which docs him much credit, but wo can 



to the emperor Leopold, and had a confiderable penfica 

 allowed him by that prince. 



Thomas etched feveral plates, in a bold, free, and fpirited 

 ftyle, which are much fought after by colleftors, among 

 which the following may be reckoned the Left. " Mercury- 



only fpecify " the following ; A fet of eight, views of conduding a Gholl before Hecate ;" " A Lady at her 



Lilbon, dedicated to queen Catherine ; another fet of eight. Toilette ;" "A Shepherd carefling a Shepherdefs ;" « A 



reprefcnting the proceffion of queen Catherine from Porlf- Satyr offering Violence to a Shepherdefs ;" all of 410. fize, 



mouth to Hamoton Court, dated 1662; and feveral of from his own defigns ; and a palloral fubjed, compofed of 



the plates for Ogilbv's edition of /Efop's Fables, pub- hx figures, three men and three women, one of the former 



lirtied in 1678, after Barlow. Thcfe are flight hafty per- 

 formances. 



Anthony van der Does was born at the Hague in the 

 year '610. He chieny engraved portraits; if he was not 

 the difciple of I'aul Poiiliu?, he imitated his (lyle ; and 

 although he never equalled that great matter, yet his bcft 

 engravings poflfefs a confiderable (hare of merit. He en- 

 graved moft of the plates for a colle£lion of portraits of 

 the ilhillrious men of the feventecnth century, publidied at 

 Amfterdam, many of which are dated 1649. .Among his 

 bell portraits are thofe of Gerard Cock, a plenipotentiary 

 to the court of Ofnabruck ; George Wagner, plenipoten- 

 tiary to the court ot Ofnabruck, both in folio, after Anfelm 

 Van Hull ; Ferdinand, cardinal infanta of Spain, and go- 

 vernor of the Low Countries, after Diepenbeck, in large 

 folio ; the marquis of CalUe-Rodrigo, after Rubens, in 

 large 4to. ; Francis de Mello, fmall folio ; Francis de Mello, 

 on horfeback, in folio, from .1. Buffart. 



And of his Hijlorical Prints, the moll efteemed are " A 

 Magdalen," half figure, in 4to., from Vandykej "A 

 Miracle performed by St. Francis," after Diepenbeck ; 

 " A Madonna and Child," after Erafmus Quellinus; and 

 •' A Holy Family," from the fame painter, both in folio. 

 The Holy Family is accompanied by two angels, one of 

 whom is ilrangeiy employed in warming linen for the child, 

 whilft the other makes its bed. Of the remainder of this 

 family of artifts, we have already treated in vol. xii. See 

 Does, Jacob and Simon", Vander. 



An account of the lives and works of Cornei.iu.s Bega, 

 and Leon'.\rd CoogheN', (which fliould clfe have been in- 

 troduced in this place,) will alfo be found under thofe lieads 

 refpeflively. The plates of the former, imprefTions from 

 which are much fought after by connoiffeurs, have recently 

 been purchafed and republifhed by a foreign print merchant, 

 with defcriptions in the French and Dutch languages. They 

 amount to thirty-four plates cf humorous and vulgar ruf- 

 ticity. 



Edward Eckman, or Ecman, was born at Mechlin in the 

 year 1610. He was a moll excellent engraver on wood, 

 and copied many of Callot's prints, even imitating the free 

 ftyle of that matter with great fuccefs. The dillant parts 

 of his engravings are very neatly executed ; and the perfeft 

 forms of the imalleft figures exceedingly well preferved. 

 Among other engravings by him, is the reprefentatiou of the 

 fire-work upon the river Arno, from Callot, which Papillon, 

 who has certainly judged well in this inttance, calls an admi- 

 rable print, adding, that it is impoffible to find a more deli- 

 cate engraving on wood. 



Eckman engraved alfo from Louis Bufink, Abi-aham 



is pliiying upon the bagpipes, m folio ; likewife from his 

 own invention. Tlie two latter are compofed fo much in 

 the ftyle of Rubens, that fome authors have attributed their 

 invention to him, but without foundation. 



John Troyen, or Van Troyen, was 3 native of the Low 

 Countries, and born A. D. 1610. He produced feveral 

 etchings from the pi(Sures of Italian roaflern, coHefted by 

 D. TenierS, for the gallery at Brufiels. They are executed 

 in a (light, coarfe, incorreft ftyle, but his prevailing tones 

 of light and (liade arc tolerably good. 



The following are the beft part of them. " Salome pre- 

 fenting the Head of St. John to the Daughter of Herod," 

 after L. da Vinci ; " The penitent Magdalen ;" after Cor- 

 reggio ; " The Adoration of the Kings," after P. Veronefe ; 

 " Jefus Chrift healing the Sick," from the fame painter; 

 four fubjeclfs of " The Seafons," after Baflan, all in folio ; 

 and a grand compofition, in large folio, after L. Pordonna, 

 of "The Entombing of Chrift." 



Peter Lifebetius, or Van Leyfebetten, was the contem- 

 porary ot Van Troyen, and, like liim, was employed in en- 

 graving part of the gallery of Teniers. His plates are ex- 

 ecuted in a coarfe and incorrect ftyle ; among them are a 

 portrait of David Teniers, fenior, in 4to., from Van Mol ; 

 " Diana repofing," attended by an old woman, after Titian ; 

 "The Marriage of St. Catherine," after P. Veronefe ; 

 " The Vilitation of Elizabeth," after Palma the elder ; " The 

 Virgin at Prayers, and St. John carefled by the Infant Sa- 

 viour," after the younger Palma; " Cupid prefenting Venus 

 with Fruit ;" and " Diana and Endymion,'' after Paris Bor- 

 donna, all of foho fize. The two laft are remarkably ill 

 drawn, and the reft reach not above mediocrity. 



John MeyfTens, or Mytens, was born at Bruffels in 

 the year 1612. He learned the principles of painting from 

 Anthony Van Obilal, and afterwards became the difciple 

 of Nicholas vander Horft. He painted both hiftorical 

 fubjedts and portraits, but was moft fuccefsful in the latter. 

 He refided at Amfterdam, where he publilhed feveral collec- 

 tions of engraved portraits, not only from his own paintings 

 but thofe of Vandyke, and a variety of other mafters. 

 Meyffens engraved and etched, and we have by him a col- 

 lection of portraits which he publilhed in 1649. Pjofper 

 Merchand, in his hiftorical dictionary, mentions a book of 

 portraits by this artill, (hkewife publidied by himfelf,) 

 which is become very rare, on the frontifpiece of which is 

 the name of " Speckkraemer." They are in general 

 greatly inferior to what might have been expeded from his 

 hand, and do not do him much credit as an artill. Of thefe 

 mediocre performances, it may be fufficient to fpecify tlie 

 following, which are rather valued on account of the pic- 

 tures from xvlience they are engraven, than on account of the 



BolTe, and others. The number of his prints is faid to be merits of the engraver. 



one hundiva and five. Porirait of himfelf; Henry de Keyfer, architefl and 



John Ttiomas was' a native of Afpres, and born in tlie fculptor ; Guido Rheni ; Daniel Scghers, Jcfuit, and 



year 1610. He was a (uccelsful pupil of Rubens, and af- flower painter, from Livens ; Cornelius de Bie, from Eraf- 



terwards, in company with his fellow ftudent Diepenbeck, mus Queliinus ; WilSam de Nieulandt, painter, from the 



went 10 Italy, where he met with great encouragement from fame mailer ; Mary Ruten, the wife of Vandyke 4 "The 



the bilhop ot Metz. In 1662 he was intitled' firft painter Virgin and Child," half figures, from Titian, all in 4to. And 



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