LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



of efPed, and an incorreftnefs of outline, even in his bed 

 works, though engraved very neatly. He executed a con- 

 fiderablc number of plates, after Flemifh mailers, but more 

 particularly after Rubens ; the beft of which are as follows : 

 " Judith and Holofernes," in large folio (the earlieft im- 

 preflionrf of which are before the name of C. Galle was 

 inferted) ; " The Return from Egypt," in folio ; " The 

 Virgin and Child," to whom angels prefent a balket of 

 fruit, in f»lio ; " The Martyrdom of St. Andrew," a fine 

 print, in large folio ; " St. Auguilin," rare, in large folio ; 

 " St. Agnes with a Lamb," in folio ; "Seneca in the 

 Bath, bidding Farcwel to his Friends ;" " Roman Charity," 

 both in folio; •' A Satyr with Fruit," accompanied by a 

 bacchante, in large folio, all after Rubens ; " Folly," after 

 Jac. Jordaens ; " The Card-Playcrs," after Corn, de Vos, 

 both in large folio ; and " Chrift bearing the Crofs," a 

 capital print after Vandyke, engraved on three plates. 



Peter Bail'u, or Balliu, was born at Antwerp in the year 

 1614. He learned the rudiments of painting in his native 

 country, after which he went to Italy for improvement, 

 ■where, in conjundlion with other artifts, he was employed 

 in engraving the Jullinian Gallery. On his return to An- 

 twerp, in the year 1635, '^^ ^'^^ much patronized, and his 

 engravings are, by many coUeftors, held in ao fmall efteem. 

 Huber dalTes him among the fu-ft engravers of his age. 

 His works exhibit fome talent in the art of expreffing the 

 textures of various furfaces, and his chiarofcuro poflefles 

 confiderable force ; yet his heads are feldom expreflive or 

 beautiful; and the extremities are heavy and not wcU marked. 

 He engraved both portrait and hiilory, and executed his 

 plates entirely with the graver. Among his moll efteemed 

 works are the following : 



Portraits. — Louis Pereira, and Claude de Chabot, envoys 

 to Munller, both in 410. without the name of the painter; 

 John Leuber, counfellor of Drefden, from A. van Woef- 

 bergen ; pope Urban VHL giving his benediftion ; the 

 four heads of the church — St. Jcrom, St. Auguilin, St. 

 Ambrofe, and St. Gregory, all in folio ; Jacob Backer, a 

 painter of Holland, in 4to. ; and John Bylert, a painter of 

 Utrecht, both from his own piftures ; Albert, prince and 

 count of Arenberghe, in large folio, from Vandyke ; Lucy 

 Peraye, countefs of Carlille ; Anthony of Bourbon, count 

 of Morel, fon of Henry IV. ; and Honorus Urphee, count 

 of Novi Catlellie, &c. all in folio, from Vandyke. 



H'ljlvrica! SubjeSs after •various Italian Majlers. — " Helio- 

 dorus chafed from the Temple by Angels ;" a very large 

 upright print, engraved on two plates, after a drawing by 

 Van Lint, from Raphael's pifture in the Vatican ; " A 

 dead Chritl lying on the Knees of the Virgin Mary ;" 

 a large upright plate from An. Carraci ; " The Archangel 

 Michael overcoming the Dasmon," after Guido ; " The Re- 

 conciliation between Jacob and his Brother," after Rubens, 

 all in large fuho ; " Chrill in the Garden of Olives;" 

 " The expiring Magdalen," fupported by angels, both in 

 folio ; The Rape of Hijipodamia, or the Combat of the 

 Centaurs and Lapitha;," in large foHo, all after Rubens ; 

 " A Holy Family," after Theodore Rombout, in folio ; 

 " Mary Magdalen and St. Francis at the Feet of Chriil ;" 

 "The Virgin in the Clouds," both in large folio, from 

 Vandyke; " Rinaldo and Armida," in large folio, after 

 "the fame painter (the companion was engraved by P. de 

 Jode) ; " Sufannah at the Bath," after Martyn Pepyn ; 

 " The Flagellation," after Diepenbeck ; " Chrill crowned 

 with Thorn.i, ' after the fame painter'; " The Itivefttion of 

 the Crofs, before St. Helena," af:er Van Lint; "The 



Emperor Theodofius holding the Crofs before St. Am- 

 brofe," altej tlie fame painter, all in large folio; " Jefus 



Chrid failened to a Column," attended by angels, with the 

 inilruments of the paiTion, after John Thomas, in folio ; 

 and " St. Anaftalius feated in a vaulted Apartment read- 

 ing," after Rembrandt, a folio print, with a fine effeCft of 

 light and fliadow. 



John van Akcn was born in Holland, A.D. 1614, and 

 was the fellow-ftudent of Bamboccio. He has frequently 

 been miftaken for John van Aaclicn, of Cologne, the Utter 

 of whom did not engrave. 



The following etchings, from the hand of Van Aken, are 

 free and maderly, and in a ftyle much refembhng tjiat of 

 J. Both. 



A fet of fix horfes, with landfcape back-grounds, in 8vtf; 

 marked J. V. Aken, fecit. M. de Heinneken likewife cites 

 the two following : a landfcape, where a horfe appears in 

 the fore-ground faddled, and a man leated on the ground be- 

 hind it, with only liis back feen, and towards the left, another 

 man with his hat on. This is very fcarce ; and four fine 

 mountainous landicapesj ornamented with figures, wood, and 

 buildings, in folio, both marked with his name, to which is 

 added fecit ; and in the latter H.L. inventore. 



John Almelovcn was born in Holland in the year 1614. 

 He was a painter as well as an engraver ; the latter pro- 

 feflion he exercifed chiefly for the bookiellers, but with great 

 credit to himfelf. His etchings, of which the fubjea,* are 

 principally landfcapes, abound with freedom and intelli- 

 gence. Of thefe it may be fufficieut to mention, in this 

 place, 



The Portrait of Gilbert Voetius, marked J. Aln'eloven, 

 inv. et fee. ; a fet of twelve views of towns and villages, 

 ornamented with figures ; a fet of fix mountainous land- 

 fcapes, with figures, and the fonr feafons, from Herman 

 Saftleven, all in quarto. 



Matthew Borrekens, or Borekens, was the contemporary 

 and friend of the preceding artill, and relided at Antwerp. 

 He worked chiefly with the graver, in a neat tlyle, refembling 

 in manual execution that of P. Pontius, but his drawing is 

 far lefs correal. 



The principal parts of his works are the copies he made 

 from Bolfvvert, and other eminent engravers, for Vandett 

 Eaden, of which the bell are as follows : 



Portraits oi Augullus Carpzou, plenipotentiary of Fre- 

 deric William, duke of Saxony, Anfelme van Hulle pinxit, in 

 folio ; Gerard Schepeler, plenipotentiary of the peace of 

 Olnabruck, from the fame painter ; the prelate Chrillopher 

 Buthens, after Diepenbeck, all in folio. 



Ilijlorical SuiJeSs, Iffc. — " Mary Magdalen embracing the 

 Crucifix," accompanied by the Virgin and St. John, after 

 Vandyke, in very large folio; "The Virgin Handing upon 

 a Globe, treading on a Serpent," in foUo, after Rubens ; 

 " St. Francis Xavier," and " St. Ignatius of Loyola," all 

 in folio ; " St. Barbara," in large folio, a very rare print ; 

 all from Rubens. '• Jelus Chrill bound," furrounded with 

 angels bearing the inllruments of the paffions ; " The good 

 Shepherd," " The Myilery of the Mai's," both in large 

 folio ; and the frontifpiece to " Butkins's Trophies of the 

 Duchy of Brabant," in folio ; all after Diepenbeck. 



Andrea Stock was born in Holland, A.D. 1616, and 

 refided the greater part of his fife at Antwerp. He was 

 the pupil of Jacques de Gheyn, and imitated his llyle with 

 tolerable fuccefs. His profeffional talent was of a general 

 nature. He engraved portrait, landfcape, and hiltorical 

 fubjedls, but can fcarcely be faid to have rileu above medi- 

 ocrity. 



His bell prints are, the Portraits of Albert Durer, in 4"o. 



after Thomas Vinidor de Bologne ; Ha::s Holbein, from a 



picture by that mailer, in 4to. ; Lucas of Leyden, from a 



3 S 2 pifture 



