LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



A fet of fix large upright folio etchings, entitled " The 

 Gallery of Wenzclbourg," and after Salvator Rofa, Peter 

 de Laer, ard St. Vlicger, are of great variety; and "The 

 Reprefentation of a grand FeiHval given at Vienna," after 

 a picture by Akx. Lartucci, in large folio, is alfo among the 

 fincll and rarcll engravings of this mailer. 



Adrian vander Kabcl, or Cabel, was born at Ry fwick, near 

 the Hague, A.D. 1631. He was the difciple of John van 

 Goyen, but appears to have formed his (lyle partly from 

 ftudying the works of Salvator Rofi. He painted and 

 etched landfcapes, which were fometin.es of partoral, and at 

 others of marine charafter, all of which he iludied from na- 

 ture, and imitated her with great accuracy. 



The Rev. Mr. Gilpin juftly remarks of his etchings, that, 

 " in thofe which he has Ihidied, and carefully executed, there 

 is great beauty. His manner (llyle) is loole and mallerly. 

 His prints want effeft, but abound in freedom. His trees 

 are often particularly well managed : and his fmall pieces in 

 general are the beit of his works.' 



Among thefe may be diilinguifhed a fet of fix quarto 

 landfcapes, ornamented with figures and ruined edifices ; 

 another fet of thirty of mountainous characler, with rocks, 

 catiles, and cataraits ; another fet of four, alfo of romantic 

 charatter, adorned with figures and ruined fabrics, in folio ; 

 a pair of landfcapes of the fame general characler, alfo in 

 folio ; and, in larger folio, another pair of " St. Jerome in 

 tlie Defart," and " St. Bruno," or, accordina^ to Strutt, 

 " St. Anthony," alfo in a wild and favage landfcape. It is 

 remarkable, that in the latter plate the figure of the faint is 

 engraved, without any crofs-hatchings, in the ftyleof Mellan, 

 and if Strutt's conjeclure be right, is inferted by fome other 

 artift. The two latter prints are probably therareft, though 

 not the bed, of the prints of Vander Kibel, who died at 

 Lvons in the year 1695. 



Jeremiah Falck, or Falk, was born at Dantzic fome 

 time about the year i6jo. In his youth he travelled to 

 Paris, and Iludied under Chaveau, but fettled afterwards in 

 Holland, where he etched and engraved feveral plates for 

 the cabinet of Reynil, in confequence of which he is 

 generally ciafled with the engravers of the Low Countries. 

 He worked both with the etching-needle and the graver, and 

 engraved hillory and portrait with confiderable fuccefs. In 

 the courfe of his life he vifited the courts of Denmark and 

 Sweden, but finally eftablilhed himfelf at his native city of 

 Dantzic, where he died at an advanced age. 



The number of his plates that are fiibfcribed with his 

 name, v/ilh the addition of " Van Stockholmia," Ihew that 

 he mud have remained in Sweden for fome years, and have 

 given rife to the fufpicion of Strutt, that he was a native of 

 that country. His llyle of engraving is vigorous and free, 

 and his drawing tolerably correct, but his chiarolcuro is de- 

 fective in harmony. 



The Abbe MaroUes was in pofieffion of ninety-three en- 

 gravings from the hand of Jeremiah Fakk, from which the 

 following may be felecled, as affording the bell fpecimens 

 of his abilities ; •viz. the Portraits of Tycho Brahe, infcribed 

 " Non habere fed effe ;" William Blaeu, the difciple of 

 Tycho Brahe, a celebrated geographer, both in folio, and 

 from drawings by himfelf; Conftantine Ferbor, of Ham- 

 burgh, after Ad. Boy ; Andrea de Lelzno Lefczynflci, 

 bifhop of Kaminiec, infcribed J. Falk, Polonius fc. ; queen 

 Chriilina of Sweden ; Peter Gembici, bifhop of Cracovie, 

 all after his own drawings ; Hans Schack, a Danifii general, 

 after C. van Mander ; Louis de Geor, after David Beck ; 

 Leonard, count of Torftenfohn ;. Axel, count of Oxeniliern ; 

 AxelLiiio, afenator of Sweden; Adolphus Johan, prince pa- 

 latiae; Charles Guftavus, prince of Sweden, all after D. Beck, 



and in folio ; and Adrian Spiegelius, for the folio edition of 

 his works, which was publiflied at Amllcrdam, A D. 1045. 

 Hiftorical, Sifr.— A fet of " The four Evangcliils," haif- 

 length figures, in quarto; " A Concert of Mufic," confid- 

 ing of four performers, after Gnercino, engraved for the 

 cabinet of Reynft, in large folio ; " The Virgin and infant 

 Chrid, accompanied by St. John," after J. Stella, in folio ; 

 "The Cyclops at the Forge," after Michael Angelo; 

 " Efau difpofing of his Birthright to Jacob," after Tinto- 

 retto ; " A Man and Woman Tinging," from a pifture at- 

 tributed to John Lys, in folio ; " The old Coquet at her 

 Toilette," from the fame painter; and " St. John preaching 

 in the Defart," after Bloemart, a very capital engraving, 

 both in large folio. The lall five engravings were for the 

 cabinet of Reynd. 



John Hackacrt, the landfcape-painter of Amderdam, of 

 whom we have treated in our vol. xvii. etched a few plates, 

 about this period, with much ability, and in a dyle refembling 

 that of Waterloo. 



Of thefe the chief are a fet of fix quarto plates of fimple 

 rural fcenes, apparently views from nature. They are etched 

 ■with tafte, and No. 4. is particularly beautiful. 



Daniel Stoppendael of Holland was born in the year l()30 

 In his dyle of engraving he was a follower of CorneUus 

 Viffcher, but, like oihtrfol/ozvtrs, was always beiiind. 



His principal engravings are, a portrait of Erafmus read- 

 ing, on a pededal, in large folio ; a fet of twelve of figures 

 and animals, in quarto, dated 1651 ; a coUeftion of lixty 

 views, entitled " Les delices die Diemen Meer," engraved 

 from his own drawings, and another fet of thirty-four views 

 in Holland, all of quarto dimenfions. 



B. Stoppendael, or Stoependaal, was the countryman, 

 and contemporary of Daniel. Whether they were related 

 is uncertain. He migrated to England with William HI. 

 and his principal works, which are now become fcarce, re- 

 cord the events of the revolution, which placed William and 

 Mary on the throne of thele kingdoms. 



" An Attack of a Convoy of Provifions ;" the robbery- 

 of a coach, commonly known by the title of " The Pidol 

 Shot," and " The Lime-kiln," were engraved by Stoppen- 

 daal, after Viffcher's prints from Bamboccio, and are at pre- 

 fent more fought after than the originals. " The Depar- 

 ture of V/illiam III. ;" « The Arrival of that Prince in 

 England ;" " His Coronation ;" and " His Opening of 

 the Parhament," are of folio fize, and from defigns by the 

 engraver himfelf. 



Frederic Henry van Hohe was born at Haerlem, A.D. 

 1O30, but migrated to England, and refided cl,iefly in Lon- 

 don, \Yhere he was employed by the bookfellers, and chiefly 

 by John Duntqn. His abilities were not confiderable, but 

 at a period when few engravings appeared that were fuperior 

 to his, it is not to be wondered at that thofe of Van Hove 

 fiiould have been held in fome degree of ellimation. 



His prints are dated from 1648 to 1692, in which lalt 

 year he executed the portrait of king William on horfcback, 

 which was prefixed to " The Epitome of War." His belt 

 engraving, according to Strutt, is the portrait of Jacob 

 Cornells, a raiddling-fized upright plate arched at the top, 

 from C. Viffcher, whofe dyle of engraving he has imitated 

 with fome little fuccefs. The prcdudtions of his graver 

 were chiefly portraits, among wliich are thofe of fir Ed- 

 mundbury Godfrey, in folio ; and fir Matthew Ha!e, in 

 quarto. He engraved this lad portrait twice, but thc'fmalleft 

 is the mod efteemed. Several frontifpieces and book orna- 

 ments, and many of the plates for Quarles's Emblems, are 

 alfo among the prints of Van Hjvc. 

 The Bouttats were a numerous family of painters and 



engravers. 



