LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



rocks, acrofs which a pc(]h\r is travelHng, in the middle- 

 ground a man is feated, who appears to be drawing. 



A pair of woody landfcapee, in quarto, with cottages ; 

 on the road towards the left hand are two figures and a 

 horfe ; the other is a rncky fcene with trees, in the back- 

 ground is a view of the fea. 



A pair of ditto, with the cffeft of night ; one of them is 

 a rocky fcene with a cottage and figures ; the other is an 

 iramenfe pile of rocks crowned with wood, all of quarto 

 liz.e. 



A pair of ditto, one of which reprefents a monument ; 

 the other a cottage and pcafants. 



A pair of ditto, one is a farm-yard with poultry and 

 figures ; the other confifts of piles of various trees cut down 

 for building, with two- pcafants, all in quarto. 



A forell fcene, a river is winding through the fore-ground, 

 over which an old oak fpreads its horizontal arms. Of 

 this engraving there are two fets of impreflions, one being 

 lefs than the other by a third part. 



A woody fcene with cottages and figures, in the fore- 

 ground is a waterfall with figures angling. 



A beautiful cafcade formed down the fide of a mountain 

 by water which turns a mill; towards the right a peafant is 

 feated on tiie Itump of a tree. 



A large wooden bridge with a peafant croffing it ; in the 

 middle diilance is a cottage and church fpire, with a per- 

 fpeftive view of a town. 



A mountainous landfcape with a watermill ; on the fore- 

 ground are three figures. 



A mountainous fcene ; on the middle plain is a cottage 

 with oaks and fir trees. 



A landfcape ornamented with very tafteful figures ; towards 

 the right is a monument in the antique ftyle, with columns 

 of the Doric order. 



And a landfcape, on the fore-ground of which is a Gothic 

 ■temple, towards which a great number of figures of both 

 fexes are crowding ; towacfls the right is a chapel fur- 

 mounted with a ft at ue of St. Nicholas, all of large quarto 

 -fize. , 



Thefe laft eight prints are the moft capital of the engravings 

 of Everdingen. He 'likewife publiflied a fet of one hundred 

 views in Norway, and a fet of fifty-fix octavo plates, from his 

 own defigns, from a book entitled " The Tricks, or De- 

 ceits of the Fox," which was written by Henry d'Alk- 

 inaer. 



Nicholas Lauwets^as born at Leufe, in Hainault, in the 

 year 1620, but ellabhdied himfelf and pubhfhed his en- 

 graviiigs -at Antwerp. He emirlated the merits of the 

 /chool of Rubens, and, as Strutt thinks, ftudied under Paul 

 'T»ontiuf, whofe ftyle of engraving he for the moft part imi- 

 tated, working with the graver alone. He was, however, by 

 no means equal- to tha't great mafter, either in his knowledge 

 of forms, powers of dehneation, or excellency of handling. 



Lauwers engraved after feveral of the Flemidi matters, but 

 'his beft prints are decidedly thofe which are from the pi£lures 

 of Rubens, of which the chief are as follow^ 



" The Adoration of the Eaftern Kings," of the upright 

 form; "The Ecce Homo," of the fame form. {Note. — In 

 the latter imprefTions of this plate, the name of Lauwers is 

 erafed, and that of Scheltius a Bolfwert fubilituted in its 

 Jl.ead, which is probably the trick of fome Dutcli dealer, 

 which has been put in execution., in order to enhance the nc- 

 minal value of the imprefTions..) " 'I'he Defeent from the 

 "Crofs," of the fanr-.e form, and " A Dead Chrill 0:1 the Lap 

 of tlie Virgin iMary,'' all- of folio dimenfions. "The 

 'Triumph of the New Law" is a very large and fine print, 

 lengthways, which Lauwers has engraved on two plates, and 



is alfo after Rubens, as well as his portrait of IfabcUa, in- 

 fanta of Spain. 



There are, however, fome few exceptions to our general 

 aftertion that the beft works of this mailer are after Rubens. 

 His large print of " Baucis and Philemon entertaining Ju- 

 pitcr and Mercury," (which Strutt has miftakenly attri- 

 buted to his brother Conrad,) is after Jordaens, and may 

 certainly be claffcd among his very beft productions. His 

 " Holy Virgin and Child," and " St. Agabus," after 

 Diepenbeck, and his " St. Cecilia," and " Interior of a 

 Cafearet," after Se;!;hcrs, have alfo confiderable merit. 



Conrad Lauwers was the elder brother of Nicholas, and 

 worked much in the fame ftyle, with the graver only, but 

 with Ibmewhat inferior powers. He was born at Leufe in 

 the year ifiij, but rer;ded principally at Antwerp. 



'1 he Fortraiti of Acrtus Qucllinus, an architeft, after 

 J. de Decyts ; Peter Verbrugghen, a fculpior, after E. 

 Quellinus ; Marius Ambrofius Capdlo, biftiop of Antwerp, 

 after Diepenbeck ; and Father Antony Vigier, afterj. Cof- 

 fiers, may be reckoned among the beft works ol Conrad. And 

 his 



ITiJlor'ical prints of moft rep-.itatioii are, " The Prophet 

 Elijah vifited by an Angel in the Dcfart," a lai-ge tipright 

 folio; and " Chrift bearing the Crofs," both after Rubens ; 

 " The Baptifm of the Emperor and Emprefs of Monomo- 

 tapa ;" " The Great Crucifixion," after .1. Coflius, in large 

 foli.) ; and " The Holy Family," in a landkape after Schia- 

 vone. 



Coryn or Querin Boel, defcended from Cornelius, and 

 was related to Peier Boel, the painter. Probably, as there 

 is only three years difference in the dates of their birth, he 

 was the elder brbthcr of the latter. 



Coryn was born at Antwerp in the year 1622. He went 

 to BruiTels to work for the publication which is commonly 

 called the Gallery of Teniers, which was produced under tlie 

 patronage of the archduke Leopold. He worked with the 

 graver and etching needle, but chiefly with the latter, his 

 ftyle of handling which, was coarfe, heavy, and by no means 

 corrcft with regard to the forms of his objects. 



Yet he had the addrefs to feleft good originals to engrave 

 from, and his works are therefore, we prefume, held in fome 

 requell. The moll important of thefe are, " The Eagle of 

 Jupiter tranfporting Ganymede through the Air," after 

 Michael Angelo ; a landfcape after Giorgione, in which are 

 introduced a knight armed with a poignard kneeling before 

 a female ; " The Adoration of the Shepherds," after Titian ; 

 " Adam and Eve fitting within an Arbour of Paradife," 

 after Paduanino ; " Venus and Adonis," after Schiavone ; 

 " The Rape of Europa," after Titian ; " The Relurreclion 

 of Lazarus," after the elder Pal ma : "Diana and her 

 Nymphs bathing," after the fame; " Perfeus delivering 

 Andromeda," after Domenico Fetti, all of folio dimenfions. 

 And, after Teniersthe elder, " The Barber-furgeon Apes," 

 and "Cats performing a Concert ;" " The Vilhge Fete," 

 with Dutch peafantry playing at nine'pins ; " The Interior 

 of a Flcmifli Cabaret," with a joyous company of drinkers 

 and fmokers, all in folio ; and a pair of 410. fize, of half- 

 length figures of Dutch peafantry. 



Wallerant Vaillant, (who is flightly mentioned in our ac- 

 count of Englisu engraving ?s the coadjt:tor of prince Ru- 

 pert,) was born at I^iide, 111, Flanders, A.D. 1623, and died 

 at Amfterdam in 1677. He was the eldeft of five brothers, 

 who all of them attained {'one reputation in the arts. Wal- 

 lerant wen: to Antwerp, and ftudied under Erafmus Qi.ielli- 

 nus ; he excelled in portrait painting, and met with great 

 encouragement ; for having fuccefsiully painted the portrait 

 of the emperor Leopold, his occupation incrcafed fo rapidly 



that 



