LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



•teroBamenfis Batavus, in folio ; admiral Michael Adriaenfz the fame charafter, and alfo in 4to ; a fet of four moiin- 



dc Ruytor, a very fine portrait, in largo folio; "The taiiious laiidifapcs, with water and buildings ; four gard.-n 



Army of William III. at tiie Battle of the Boyne," and a views with figures and ftatnes, in 4.0 ; a jiair of very fine 



medallion of himfclf and qnecn Mary, in large folio ; " Wil- Italian views, ornamented with fignres and ilatnes ; an 



linm Henry, prince of Orange, on Horfeback, accompanied Italian garden, with fonntains and figures ; a large laudfcape 



by the young Princes, entering the City of Amfterdam ;" with a waterfall; and a rocky fcene with water, all of 



an allegorical fubjeft, relating to prince William Henry ; large folio dimenfions, are generally reckoned to be his very 



anotkcr allegory, in compliment to Leopold II.; "The bell prodvidtions. 



Marriage of WilUani, Prince of Orange, with the Princefs 

 Tvlary ;" " The Entry of the Prince of Orange into Lon- 

 don ;" « The Coronation of William III. in Weftminfter 

 Abbey;" " The Flight of .Tames II. into France;" 

 " Louis XIV. receiving Barnes at St. Gennains ;" "The 

 Siege of Vienna by the Turks ;" "The Return of John III. 



James Neefs was born at Antwerp, A. D. i6jo, and 

 was probably related to Peter Neefs, the celebrated painter 

 ot architefture. He worked principally with the graver, 

 and handled it with great facility. He drew the liuman 

 figure with fome degree of correftnefs, but in a mannered 

 ftyle. The charaflers which he has given to the heads of 



king of Poland, after dcfeatiiig the Turks ;" ; " The Siege his figures, efpecially when they required alfo an animated 

 of Rochefter," and " Taking of the Fort of Sheernefs," exprellion, is often exaggerated. 



both fubjeCls on one plate; " The Excefles committed by 

 the French Soldiers at Bodegrave, and other Places in Hol- 

 land ;" <' The Defeat of the French at Hochlladt in 1704," 

 with the medallions of prince Eugene and the duke of Marl- 

 borough, all of large folio fize ; " The taking of Conftan- 

 tinople by the Turks," in folio ; " The Jews' Synagogue 

 at Amfterdam ;" " The taking of Nerva by Charles XII. 

 in the Year 1700;" " The City of Gran, affaulted by the 

 Imperialiils," both in large folio ; " The Battle of St. 

 Denis," on two large plates ; " The Prince of Orange de- 



He engraved both portrait andhiftory, and his bed work--, 

 though faulty in the above refpefts, have much merit on the 

 wiiole. The following ace feledled as tieing moft worthy 

 the attention of the colledor. 



Portraits. — Jofcph Bergaigne, a Roman prelate, from 

 Th. van Thulden ; Gafpar Nemius, bifliop of Antwerp, 

 from G. Seghers ; John Tollenario, a Flemifii .Tefuit, from 

 P. Fruytiers ; Francis Snyders, the painter, the plate of 

 whi(,-'i was etched by Vandyke, and finilhcd witli tlie graver 

 by Neefs ; Anthony de Taffis, from Vandyke ; tlie mar 



clared Stadtholder of Holland ;" " The Arrival of the chionefs of Barlemont, and countefs of Egmout ; Jofhua 



Prince of Orange at London in 1688," in large folio; de Hertoghe, a niinifter of his Catholic majeily at Rati.'bo!! ; 



twelve plates, illuftrative of the fafhions of the feventeenlh Martin Ryckaert, landfcape painter at Antwerp, all from 



century, invented by De Hooghe, in 410. ; " The Deluge Vandyke ; Jaan Dolenaris, Jefuit and author of the Spc- 



at Coeverden," in folio, (the plate on which we have com- culum Vanitatis, after Ph. Fruylier.^, all of folio fize. 

 inented at fome length) ; " The Entry of Louis XIV. into H'ljhrkal, l^c. — " The Fa'l of the Damned ;" " Melchi- 



Dunkirk," a large print, lengthways, on two plates, from zedeck prefenting Bread and Wine to Abraham;" " Chrift ■ 



Vander Meulen ; " Charles II. king of Spain, defcending on the Crofs," all in large folio ; " St. Aiiguftin," in folio ; 



from his Carriage to pay Homage to the Hoft," in folio, " The Martyrdom of St. Thomas ;" " The Judgment of 



from De Hooghe's own compofition ; " Tiie Mafiacre of Paris;"" — ~ • . . _ . 



the two De Witts," in folio ; an emblematical print, ex- folio 



pofing the vices of the monks and other ecclefiaftics of the king of Spain crowned by two genii 



." " The Triumph of Galatea," very rare, all in large 

 ; " Philippus Prudens, Antwcrpia," reprefenting the 

 of Spain crowned bv two jrenii, in folio ; " The*Car- 



Romilh church, a middling-fized plate, lengthways, with 

 the name of Loggan affixed to it, though it is evidently the 

 work of De Hooghe, who, fearful perhaps of affixirg his 

 own, name, fathered this engraving upon a foreign artill ; 

 and " The Fair at x^rnheim," in large folio. 



Abraham Genoels, furnamed Archimedes, was born at 

 Antwerp in the year 1638. He learned the rudiments of 

 art of Jacques Backreel, and afterwards travelled to Paris 

 for improvement, where he was employed by Le Brun and De 

 Seve, and v.'here a royal penfion.and apartments in the Go- 



dinal Infanta of Spain," in folio, all after Rubens ; a woman 

 with rnilk pails, and ancther with a baflcet on her head ; 

 " Jefus Chrift and tlie fix Peiutcnts," after Seghtr?-, i:i large 

 folio ; " Job mal-treated by his Wife," in folio ; " The 

 Martyrdom of St. Lievens ;" " Jefus Chrift appearing to 

 Mary Magdalen," in large folio, after Seghers ; " Chriil 

 before Piiate," after Jordaens ; " The Satyr, or the Gucit 

 who blew Hot and Cold," in large^folio ; " A Shepherd 

 and Shepherdefs at rural Diverfion," both after the fame 

 painter, in fofo ; and " St. Roch inteiceding for thc.fe 



belins were affigned him. From the French metropolis, afflicled with the Plague," after Erafmiis Quellinus, in folio. 



Genoels travelled to Italy, the common theatre of improve- 

 ment, and after ftudying there awhile returned to Paris, with 

 the reputation of an excellent artill. In 1682 he vifited his 

 native city, where he died at an advanced age. Genoels exe- 

 cuted a eonfiderable number of etchings of landfcapes in a free 

 mafterly ftyle, ornamented with very good figures and ani- 

 mals ; a eonfiderable number ef them are from his own defigns, 

 and the large ones are particularly excellent. His compofition 



Anthony Francis Baudins, or Baudouins, was born at 

 Dixmude in the year 164O, and died at Paris in 1700. He 

 was the difciple of Vander Meulen, and con-difciple of Van 

 Hugtenbourg. He etched in a bold, free ftyle, not unlike 

 that afterwards adopted by Chatelain. Baudins executed a 

 great number of plates, moft of them from Vander Meulen ; 

 the belt of which are as follows : a fet of fix landfcapes, in 

 fmall folio ; a fet of fix, with buildings and figures, dedi- 



is in general good, though perhaps, in fome inllances, a little cated to Ph. de Champagne, in large folio ; a let of eight, 



too much crowded with objeds. His prints (hould be 

 viewed as engraved Jketches, not as tranilations of finifhed 

 pictures. This is the limit of their pretenfion, and thus re- 

 garded they are beautiful produdtions. The monogram of 

 this artift will be found in Plate IV. of tliofe ufed by the 

 artifts of the Netherlands. 



The following are a feledtion of the works of Genoels. A 

 pair of mountainous landleapes, with figures and monuments 



of buildings and figures ; a hunt of hinds, dedicated to the 

 marquis ot Louvois ; a ftag hunt, a very rich compofition ; 

 a large landfcape, into which is introduced the m.arch of the 

 king to Vincennes, dedicated to Le Brun ; a lar.dfcape, 

 witli the march of the queen to Veriaille^', dedicated to the 

 duke de Noailles ; a view ef Befan^on, on two plates; 

 view of the city of Ardres, in Picardy ; view of the 

 city of Gray in Franche Compte ; the city of Bethune in 



an the antique tafte, in 4to ; three pair of landfcapes of Artois, on two plates ; a view of St. 



Lawrence de l.i 

 Roche, 



