LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



Luttichiiys ; Charles II. of England, companion to the 

 preceding, from the fame painter ; John Maurice, prince of 

 Naffau, after Gov. Hinck ; Maarte Harpertfz Tromp, the 

 Dutch admiral, after Livens ; four very fir.e portraits, after 

 Titian, from the cabinet of Reynft, "viz. Peter Aretine, 

 .Tohn Boccace, George Barherelli, and Sebatlian del Pi- 

 ombo, all of large folio dimenrion,<i. 



Hijlorical, isfc. — " Tlie Adoration of the Shepherds;" 

 " Tiie Virgin and Infant Ctiriil," both in 410.; an alle- 

 gorical engravincf, rcprcfenting a fatyr leading an afs, and 

 a woman and child lying near a cock, in 4to. ; " The four 

 Fathers of the Church," after Rubens, in folio, exicuted 

 in the llylc of P. Pontius ; " The Graces embeljifliing a 

 Statue of Nature," atter the fame painter, a large lipright 

 print on two plates. In the e.\ecution of this print, he 

 leems to have had an eye to the neater works of S. Bolf- 

 wert. " A Shepherd crovirning a Shepherdefs with Flowers," 

 after Caltelyn, in 4to. ; " The Holy Virgin prefcnting the 

 Breaft to the Infant ChriH," after Hinck; "Venus and 

 Cupid ;" and a head of a ncgrefs, both from the fame jjainter, 

 all in folio ; " The four Elements," reprefented by children, 

 in ovals of quarto fize ; a concert of four perfons ; " Gior- 

 gione," in large fijlio, from the cabinet of Reynll ; and "Th.e 

 iVIonument of Admiral Van Tromp," after a marble group 

 by Verhullt, a very rare print, in large folio. 



Nicholas van Hole, or Van Hoy, was born at Antwerp 

 in the year 1626. He was but an indifferent engraver ; but, 

 at the death of Francis Leux, was entitled cabinet painter 

 to the emperor of Germany. In conjunftion with Steen, 

 Offenback, and other artifts equally indifferent with himfelf, 

 he engraved the colleftion of pifturcs, whicli D. Teniers 

 the younger made for Leopold, archduke of Auftria. This 

 colleftion was publiflied at Antwerp in the year 1660, in 

 folio, confining of two hundred and forty-three prints, and 

 is ufually known by the name of the Gallery of Teniers. 

 The following engravings are likewife by him : " The 

 Virgin and Holy Infant, with St. Jerome," after Baroc- 

 cio, in 4to. ; " Chrifl and the Woman of Samaria," after 

 Raphael ; " The dead Body of Chnll extended on the 

 Earth, and the Vu-gin prollrate before it," from D. Fetti ; 

 and " Apollo and the Mufes on Mount Parnaffus," after 

 Tintoretto, all of folio fize. 



Richard Collin was born at Luxembourg in the year 

 1626. He went to Rome to ftudy under Sandrart, from 

 v.-hofe drawings he engraved feveral plates. He afterwards 

 returned to Antwerp ; from whence removing to Bruffels, 

 he was honoured with the title of engraver to the king of 

 Spain. But in his engravings he feldom exceeded medio- 

 crity. There is a portrait of this artift, with a long infcrip- 

 tion in bad French. The following are fome of his beil 

 engravings : 



Portraits of Artus Ouelllnus, a flatuary of Anitlerdam ; 

 John Philip van Thielen, a flower-painter, both from E. 

 Qucllinus, in 4to. ; Joachim Sandrart ; Cornelius Hazart, 

 a controvcrtift, both in folio; Bartholomew Murillo, the 

 celebrated painter of Spain; Chriflian Albert, bifhop of 

 Lubeck, both in large folio ; Anna Adelhildis, uxor prin- 

 cipis de la Tour et Taxis ; Claude Francis de la Viefville, 

 abbe of Louvaine, in large folio ; Arnold John Philip de 

 Raet van Voont, knight of the order of Chriit ; and the 

 thirty portraits of the faints of mount Carmel, all in large 

 folio. 



Hijlorical, iifc. —" Etther before King Aihafuerns," in 

 large folio, from Rubens ; " Chrifl carrying the Crofs," 

 after Van Diepenbeck, in folio ; " St. Arnold," after tlie 

 fame painter ; and " The Sepulchral Monument of Peter 

 Pafqual," both in 4to, 



Francis van Neve, or de Neve, v.-as born at Antwerp, 

 A.D. 1627. He ftudied the works of Rubens and Van- 

 dyke, and afterwards travelled to Italy. He became a 

 landfcape-painter of confiderable merit, and fucceeded re- 

 markably well in introducing fmall figures into his pi6\ures. 



On his return to his native city, Van Neve etched a coufi- 

 derable number of landfcapes, into which he introduced 

 hiftorical figures with much judgment. They are executed 

 in a flight, bilt intelligent ilyle ; the cfTefls are very agree- 

 able, and they are ail from his own compoiltions, proving at 

 once the excellency of his tafle, and the fertility of his ge- 

 nius. Tiie following are fcledled from his work?-, as being 

 the mall meritorious. 



A pair of mountainous landfcapes with buildings, and 

 .figures in the colUime of the Grecians ; a pair of landfcapes of 

 the faine character, with an angler and two other figures in 

 one, the other has a large tree and a river in the fore-ground, 

 and a man tending flieep at a dillance ; a pair of palloral 

 landfcapes, with figures in the drefs of Arcadian fliepherds ; 

 a pair of landfcapes, into one of which is introduced Diana 

 and Endymion, and in the other Venus and Cupid ; and 

 another is Venus repofing on the banks of a river, and 

 Cupid fwimming in it ; a pair of hiilorical landfcapes, in one 

 of which is Narcifl'us admiring himfelf ; and the other is a 

 pafloral fcene, with a fliepherd playing the tabor, accom- 

 panied with his flock ; all of folio dmienfions. 



Henry Verfchunng was born at Gorcum in the year 

 1627. He learned the rudiments of art under Theodore 

 Govert/,, whofefchool he quitted to ftudy under John Both. 

 From Utrecht, where Both refided, he went to Rome, 

 where he frequented the public academy, and travelled fuc- 

 ceffively to Florence and to Venice. In 1655 '^^ returned to 

 his native country, where he painted battles, f].;irmillies, and 

 fubjefts of that kind, with great fuccefs ; he always imitated 

 nature with much truth, and his compofitions abound with 

 wild variety and charafteriftic fpirit. 



Verfchuring executed a conliderable number of flight 

 etchings of fliirmifhcs, mihtary furprifes and purfuits, from 

 his own compofitions, of which the prefent writer is unable 

 to fay more than that they are very Icarce. 



This artift was drowned in a tempeft at fea, on the twenty- 

 fixth of April, 1690. 



Joh.n or Jofhua Offenbcck was born at Rotterdam in the 

 year 162", and became a landfcapeand cattle-painter, whofe 

 merits will be treated under the article Ossenbeck. 



He travelled fuccefTively, either for patronage or improve- 

 ment, to Frankfort, Mayence, Ratifbon, and Vienna, find in 

 the courfe of his proftflional career, executed a confiderable 

 number of etchings in a free and painter-like ftyle. Huber 

 thinks they are the produftion of his leifure, but it may 

 fairly be prefumed that at leail thofe which he executed fcr 

 the gallery of Teniers were done as much for profit as for 

 plea lure. 



Among thefe are " The Death of the Children of Niobe," 

 after Pahna ; " The Children of Ifrael gathering Mantua in 

 the Defart," after Tintoret ; " Orpheus charming the 

 Brutes," and "The Four Seafons," all after Balfan, and of 

 folio fize. Oflenbeck is thought to fucceed better in etch- 

 ing after the piilures of Baffan, than thofe of any other maf- • 

 ter, and liie laft-mentioncd are among his very beft prints. 



For other publications he produced two fets, of twelve 

 quarto plates each, from his own compofitions, of which one 

 fet confifts chiefly of animals ; " A View of the Campo 

 Vaccino," at Rome^ and " The Cafarella, near the Gate of 

 St. Sebaftian," in the fame city ; " A Boar-hunt," after Bam- 

 boccio, and the chateau of M. de Wenzelboiu'g, drawn 

 prefumptivcly by himfelf, all of folio dimcnfions. 



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