LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



tliat lie foon acquired a competent income. Ke accompanifj 

 tiie Marechal do Grammoiit into France, where lie com- 

 pleted his fortune, and after a (lay of four years returned to 

 the Netherlands, and fettled at Amflerdam. He was an en- 

 graver of :nerit, particularly in mezzotinto ; and made fome 

 conliderable improvement in that branch of art, but the 

 grounds of his plates, when compared with modern produc- 

 tions in mezzotinto, were indifferently laid, and the lights 

 uneven, particularly where they were much fcraped. The 

 moll important of his works are as follow. 



Portraits and Subjects from his O'-^n Defgr.s. — His own 

 poi-trait, and that of his wife, in oval borders, both in folio ; 

 prince Rupert ; another half-length of prince Rupert, read- 

 ing, both in 4to. ; John Frobenius, a printer of Bafle, after 

 Holbein, in folio ; fir Antony Vandyke, feated, in large 

 folio ; Siniac, a miniature painter, in fmall folio ; Hardouin 

 de Perefis de Beaumont; archbilbop of Paris ; Cornelius tSta- 

 dus, rector of theGymnafe at Amilerdam ; Conrad Hoppe, 

 a reformer of Amfterdam ; a young man feated, reading, 

 fuppofed to be the portrait of Andrea Vaillant, (a fine and 

 rare engraving); Baarent Graa', a painter of Amilerdam, 

 all of folio dimenfions, (the firll imprefiicns of the latter 

 plate were printed in brown ;) Hum.phredus Henchman, 

 epiic. Lond. " An old Woman (hewing a Letter to a 

 young One ;" " A young Man returned from Hunting, with 

 a Hare and Wild Fowl," both in large folio ; " Our Sa- 

 viour kneeling, furrounded with Angels bearing the Inftru- 

 nients of his Paflion," in 4to. ; " St. Chrillopher carrying 

 the Infant Chrill acrofs an Arm of the Sea," with the effetl 

 of night, in large 410. ; Leopoldus, Dei gratia. Roman ; 

 Joannes Philippus, Mogunt ; Carolus Ludovicus, conies 

 palat. Rheni et eleift. ; and Sopliia, comit. palat. Rheni, 

 all in folio ; thefe four lait portraits are executed with 

 the graver, and are very rare. 



Hijiorical, ISjC. after 'oarhus Majlers. — " St. Barbara,"' a 

 half figure, after Raphael, in Svo. ; " Judith," after Gnido, 

 in large folio ; " The Holy Family," after Titian ; " The 

 Temptation of St. Anthony," after C. Procaccini ; bud of 

 a warrior, after Tintoretto ; " St. Jerome," after a pidure 

 by Jac. Vailhnt, all of folio fize ; "Venus lamenting the 

 Death of Adonis," in large folio, from Eraimus Quellinus ; 

 a group of three figures, after Terburgh, in folio; "A 

 young Man painting at his Eaft-1," after Metzu ; " Two 

 Boys," after Fr. Hals ; " A Child carefilng a Dog," after 

 Vandyke ; " A Peafant and his Wife," after Teniers ; 

 " The Prodigal Son," after Marc Gerard 5 "A Party of 

 Gamblers," after the fame painter ; " Judith," and " Jael," 

 from Gerard de Lairefle ; ;' A Party of Peafants," one of 

 whom is fmoking, from Corn. Bega ; " A Company of 

 Peafants," with a woman and child, after the fame painter ; 

 . " A Party of Peafants iinging," from Ad. Brouwer ; " Two 

 Peaiants fmoking," from the fame painter ; " A Trum- 

 peter Pigeon, delivering a Letter to a Lady," after Wil. 

 Mieris ; and " The Gold Weigher," after Rembrandt, all 

 ol folio dimenfions. 



Bernard Vaillant was born at Lifle, andwasthepupilofhis 

 brother Wallerant, whom he accompanied in his travels to 

 Frankfort and to Paris. He gained confiderable reputation 

 as a crayon painter, and fcraped fome of his ewn compoli- 

 tions and portraits in mezzotinto, which he figned with his 

 initials. Among them are the 



Portraits of John Lingelbach, from Sohwarz ; Paul Du- 

 four, after a picture by his brother ; Efaias Clement, mi- 

 uirter at Rotterdam ; Charles de Rochfort, minifter of the 

 French church at Rotterdam ; Paul Dufon, a preacher at 

 J^eyden ; and heads of St. Peter and St. Pa«l, allXrom his 

 cvn drav.'ings. 



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Andrea Vaillant was the youngcH of the five brothers, and 

 ihidied engraving at Paris, after having learned the elerr.ents 

 ol art of his cldeil brother. He engraved but few plates, 

 among which are the portraits of .^loifi lis Bcrilaqua, patriarch 

 of Alexandria, in large folio; and John Eriiefl Schraden, 

 irifpefior of the Gymnafium at Berlin, in 4to. 



Francis Pool! was born at Haerlcm in the year 1624, and 

 learned the elements of art of John Pooft a painter on glafs. 

 In 1647 he went in the fuite of prince Maurice of Nadau to 

 America, where he redded for fome years, employing a large 

 portion of his time in painting and drawing from nature. 

 After his return to the Low Countries, he made a confi- 

 derable number of etchings, in a mafterly ilyle ; among which 

 is a fct of views of Brazil, from, his own drawings ; " View 

 of the Gulf of All Saints in America ;" "View of Cape St. 

 Auguftin ;" and "A Vitw of the 1 Hand of Thamaraca," 

 all in large folio ; the three latter are very capital engravings, 

 and are now become rare. 



Cornelius Coning, or Koning, was Lorn at Haerlem, 

 A.D. 1624. He is among thofe artifts who are but little 

 known, and who dcftrve to be known better. A^^e have fome 

 portraits of the iliullrious men of the fixteenth century, en- 

 graved by him in a firm and pleafing (ly'e ; but can only 

 fpccify the following few ; Laurent Colier, the printer of 

 Haerlem, from J. V. Cainpen ; Martin Luther, the reformer, 

 both in large folio ; Dicrk Piiilius, theologian ; Menno 

 Simons ; and Adrianus Tttrodius, of Haerlem, from P. 

 Grebber ; and fome of the princes of Friefland, after An- 

 diceflin, which we are not able to detail, all in folio. 



Bernard Baleau, or Bailhi, or Van Balen, was a native of 

 the Low Countries, who flourilTied at Rome during the 

 latter half of the feventeenth century, but the events of his 

 life are obfcure, and we are not acquainted with his birth- 

 place ; he worked entirely with the graver, in a heavy ftyle, 

 and his portraits, which are tlie chief of his works, have ro 

 great (hare of merit, either with refpecl to drawinj;, or the 

 execution of the engraving. The following are the moft im- 

 portant. 



, Portraits of cardinal Urfini, who was chofen pope in the 

 year 1672 ; Canute, ki-g of Denmark, after C Panig ; 

 " Our Saviour between St. Aicanta and Mary Magdalen,"' 

 from Lazaro Baldi ; " St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzio," 

 from the lame painter, all of folio fize ; " St. Peter of Al- 

 cantara, to whom the Virgin and Infant Saviour are appear- 

 ing," from the fame mailer ; and the five faints canonized 

 by Clement X. 'Si-z.. "St. Cxjetan;" "St. Francis Borgia;" 

 "St. Philip Benitius;" "'St. Louis Bertraiidti! ;" and 

 " St. Rofa, with ti-.e Infant Chri!l," all in large folio, after 

 Ciro Ferri. This artill hkewife engraved many of the plates 

 for a work intitled " ElTigit s Cardinal, nunc vivcntium." 



Paul Potter, the very celebrated painter and etcher of 

 animals and'landfcape, was born ?.t Enkhuifen in the year 

 1625. He was the fon and difciple of Peter Potter, a 

 painter of inconfiderable talents, but is far lefs indebted for 

 his extraordinary attainments to his father's inftruclions, 

 than to his own afliduous iludy of nature. No artift has 

 (hewn more fcnfibihty to the beauties of rural landfcape 

 fcenerv, or more Ciify and thorough knowledge of the forms 

 and colours of thofe animals which coiillitute its moll bril- 

 liant ornament ; the Ilyle of none is more fimple, original, 

 and unlophiiljcated.; the genius of none (hcne with a brighter 

 ray, for the (hort day of his glory, over the pailoral and 

 domeilic Xcenery of his native country. He died at Am. 

 ftcrdam x\. D. 1654, at the early age of twenty-nine years. 



The works of Paul Potter are held in very high ellima- 

 tion. His etchings are greatly and jullly admired for the 

 ie,fte, fgirit, and simplicity of ftyle which, are difplayed in 



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