LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



of Adonis. Another let of fix liiftorical landfcapes, in 

 large folio, with fiibjctls from the Old Tellarnent ; <vlz. 

 I. Abraham difmifiing Ha^ar and Iflimael. 2. Ifhmael 

 laiigutlliina; in the defart, is comforted by an angel. 3 The 

 deatli of the difobedient proph'^t. 4. Tebias and the an- 

 gel, upon which wo have commented at length. 5. Zippo- 

 rah kneeling, executing the divine commands on the Ion of 

 Mofes. And 6. The prophet ITlijah fed by ravens in the 

 w-ilderncfs^ all of which are very grand compolUions, and 

 executed in the higiieil tallc of Waterloo. 



Egbert van Pandoren was born A.D. 1606. He refided, 

 during great part of hij life, at Antwerp, but he olten 

 added the word Haerlemtnfis to his name, from which we 

 may infer that he was a native of Haerlem. He worked en- 

 tirely with the graver, in a (lifF formal ftyle ; and Tiis prmts 

 have neither harmony of effeft , nor correftnefs of drawing 

 to recommend them. The following are feleiScd from thofe 

 moft worthy of notice : God, an angel, a man, and the 

 Devil, or " The Hillory of Sicknefs and Medicine," from 

 Henry Goltzius, in quarto, very rare ; " The Virgin Mary 

 interceding with Chnll for the Salvation of Mankind," after 

 Rubens, in folio ; " The Four Evangelills,'' half figures, 

 after P. de jode ; "St. Louis, Birtiop of Thouloufe,"' after 

 the fame painter. Part of the plates for a large folio vo- 

 lume publidicd at Antwerp, 1628, entitled *' Academic de 

 I'Epce,'' bv G.' Thibault, all of folio fize ; fix engravings 

 of quarto fize, of horfes, from Ant. Tempelta ; " Maurice, 

 prince of Orange, on horfcback," after the fame painter, 

 in large folio ; and "Pallas" "Juno," and "Venus, "after 

 Spranger, in circles of foho fize. 



Theodore van Keflel was born in Holland, A.D. 1620, 

 and', it is probable, was related to the Keffels, who were 

 painters of no fmall repute in that country. His works, 

 which are rather numerous, confill chiefly of etchings ; 

 and (when he did not attempt to draw the human figure,) 

 are by no means devoid of merit, but frequently are exe- 

 cuted in a firm and free llyle. He etched a fmall folio 

 volume of vafes and ornamental compartments, confifting 

 of eight parts, from the defigns of fir Adam de Viane, with 

 his portrait at the beainmng. They were publifiied at 

 Utrecht by his (on, Chriflopher de Viane ; and almoft all 

 the plates are marked with the monogram of the inventor, 

 formed by an A and V joined together, and the initials of 

 the engraver's names, T. V. K. to winch f. or fee. is fome- 

 times added: thefe initials are commonly joined together m 

 a manner reprefented in P.W HI. of thofe ufed by the en- 

 gravers of the Low Countries. Several of the plates for 

 the gallery of Teniers, and alfo the following, were exe- 

 cuted by Van Keflel ; viz. an etching of the portrait cf 

 the emperor Charles V. after Titian, in quarto ; " St. 

 Gregory meditatmg,'' a half-length figure, executed with 

 the graver, T. Wilbontius inv. ; " A Repofe during the 

 Flight into Egypt," after Glorgione ; " Chrift and tlie 

 Woman of Samaria;" " The Woman taken in Adultery," 

 bo;h from Caracci ; " Sufannah and the Elders," after 

 Guido ; " The Holy Virgin worrtiipped by Angels,'' after 

 Vaiidyke, all of folio dimenfions ; an allegorical iubjeft, re- 

 prefenting " Abundance," in large folio ; the companion to 

 which v\as engraven by P. de Jcde, both after Rubens. A 

 fet of four baf -reliefs, after the fame painter, reprefenting 

 I. The triumph of Galatea. 2. A Triton embracing a fea 

 nymph. 3 A nymph in the ar.Tis of a fea god. And 4. A 

 fawn feated near a rock, with two children and a goat. 

 ■«'The Hunting of the Caledonian Boar," a large plate 

 lengthways, is from the fame mafter : a man wheeling a 

 barrow of peas and beans, with a man and woman driving 

 COBS, in the back-ground. A lacdfcape, the communion 



to the preceding, into which is introduced a girl with milk- 

 pails, both in large folio, are alfo from Rubens. A fet of 

 battles and (kn-miflies of banditti, after P. Snayers, in fo- 

 lio, dated 1656, muft conclude our felettion from the works 

 of this engraver. 



Abraham Conrad, orConradus, was a native of Holland, 

 and born in the year 1620. Under what mailer he 

 liudied is not known. He engraved hiltory and portraits, 

 but chiefly tiie latter ; many of which are from his own 

 drawings, and prove him to have been an artill of confider- 

 able ability. 



His mode of engraving is various, and free from bigotry 

 to any particular ityle: fo[nttimes he imitated that of Liieas 

 Vorderman with great fucccfs, and at others, a llyle l«)me- 

 what rcfembling fome of the heads by Rembrandt, but Hill 

 more reiembhng that which has fince been adopted by our 

 countryman V\'orlidge ; employing etching, or the work of 

 the graver, or dry needle, as occalion appeared to him to 

 require. 



The Portraits of Chriftopher Love ; Jacob Triglandc, a 

 profelfor of the univerfity of Leyden ; Thomas Mourios, of 

 Canterbury, after D. Boudringeen ; and Godefroid Hotton, 

 pallor of the French church at Amfterdam, after H. Moir- 

 mans ; generally efteemed the very belt of the engravings 

 ot Conrad, all of folio dimenfions. 



Of h:s iyi/?or;W works, '' The Flagellation," and "The 

 Crucifixion of our Saviour," both in folio, and after Die- 

 penbeck, are all we are able to fpecify. 



Having already treated of the biography of Bartolomco, 

 fee Breemberg ; it remains only to mention in this 

 place, that the llyle of his etchings is fcarcely lefs mafterly 

 and intelligent than that of his pictures. They are much 

 lought after by collectors, and good imprelTions are by no 

 means common. His mark, when he did not fign his name 

 at length, was B. B. F. and fometimes two B's, in the 

 way (hewn in Plats IV. of monograms ufed by the en- 

 gravers of the Netherlands. 



We have by the hand of this artill, a fet of twenty-four 

 landfcapes, with figures and animals, entitled " Verd hiden 

 verfallen Gebouden," with an etching of the portrait of the 

 artill, publilhed in o6tavo, and alio in quarto. Another let 

 cf twelve, entitled "Antiquites de Rome." A landi,.ape, 

 marked with his cypher. " Joleph diftributing Corn, 

 during the Famine in Egypt," in large folio ; and its com- 

 panion, "The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence." There are 

 many good copies from the two lall fubje£ts, particularly 

 thofe etched by Bifchop. 



Henry Naiwinck, Naiwyncx, or Naiwikex, of Utrecht, 

 according to foire authors, was the difciple of Bartolomeo. 

 He was a landfcape engraver of confiderable merit : he 

 painted alfo, and in the cabinets of the connoifieurs of 

 riolland, are drawings in Indian ink by this artill, which 

 are performed with much care, and alfo witli feeling and 

 tafte. 



His reputation, however, was chiefly founded on his 

 etchings of landfcape. He caught the mantle of Waterloo: 

 he was, perhaps, fomewhat kls free and painter-like, but 

 with regard to evennefs of tones, and what is termed en- 

 graver-hke execution, improved on his prototype. 



His works are faithful leprefentations of Nature, and the 

 feeling and delicacy which ' every where accompanies his 

 etching-needle, has occafioned his prints to, be much fought 

 after both by artiits and collectors. 



Of his etchings we are only acquainted with fixteen, of 

 which the earlicil and beft impreflioas are known to dealers 



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