LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF liiE. 



Roche, in Franche Compte ; the caftle of Jeux, on the 

 frontiers of Franche Compte ; the caftle of Verfailles, a? 

 it was formerly ; another view of the fame calUe as it is 

 at prefent j the caftle of Vincennes on the pari- (Idc- ; 

 the caftle of Fontainbleau, on two plates ; and two line 

 Italian garden views, after Genocls, all of them of very 

 large folio dimenlions. 



Michael Mouzin, or Mofyn, was born at Amfterdam in the 

 year 1636 In the execution of his plates he united the point 

 and die graver, but not fuccefsfuUy, for his ftyle is heavy 

 and laboured, and his drawing incorreCl. The following 

 areextradled from his works as being moft worthy of notice. 

 Admiral van Wafienaer, of Holland, in 410. oval ; ad- 

 miral Ruyter, after H. van Aide, in folio ; Cornelius de 

 Witt, after the fame painter, in large folio ; John van 

 Galen ; a Dutch admiral, from Livens, in largo folio ; a 

 couchant Venus, after Jae. Ad. Backer ; the four ele- 

 ments under the empiie of Venus, from Holftein, in large 

 folio ; a group of children dancing to the mulic of a 

 tambourin and triangle, played by a woman and fatyr ; 

 another group of three children dancing ; and a fatyr 

 prefenting a bunch of grapes to a female and child, all after 

 Holftein, in folio. 



Jacob van Meurs was born at Amfterdam, A. D. 1640, 

 but is rather an obfcure artift. He chiefly engraved book 



Claudius de Lingendes, in 4to. ; Joannes Veriufius, 

 doftor of theology, after X.oir ; Samuel Bochart ; Gilles 

 Menage, from de Pilles; and Nicholas le Camus, all in folio; 

 Rcnai'd, cardinal of Elle, and biftiop of Reggio, in large 

 folio ; Anne de Courtenay, confort of Maximilian, duke 

 of Sully ; Francis Pithou, juris confulte, and Peter Pjthon, 

 his brother, all in folio ; Anthony Chaffe', prior of the 

 monaftcry of St. Vcdaft ; Peter Mercier, a general, all in 

 folio ; Francis Villani, hifliop of Tournay, from L. Fran- 

 cois ; Anne Adolphme, baronefs of Pauterfen, from the 

 lame painter, both in large folip ; Claude Bazin of Befon, 

 from le Febuie, in folio ; Louifa Mary Armand de 

 Simianes, coiintofs of Lyons ; Louis le Pelletier, a parlia- 

 mentary minifter, from Nicholas de Largilliere ; Francis 

 van Meulcn, the painter; and the prince of Wales, both 

 from the lame- painter ; Juliu?, cardinal Mazarine, from 

 Nic. Mignard ; Louis XIV. in a laurel border of oval 

 form, from le Brun ; the chancellor Seguicr, from le 

 Brun ; Maximilian Henry, eleftor of Cologne, from Bar- 

 tholet Flamael ; Bernard de Foix, duke of Valette, from 

 P. Mignard ; Fliilip Defpont, doftor of theology, from 

 his own painting, all of large fol o dimenlions. 



Hijlorktd, Isfc. — " The Holy Virgin feated, with the 

 Infant Chrift," in an oval border of olive leaves, after 

 Raphael, dated 1661, in foho ; " The Holy Family, with 



plates and ornaments, and fome few portraits in a neat ftift" St. John, who holds a Dove," from Seb. Bourdon. The 



ftyle, among which are portraits of iTicliolas Copernicus, 

 the altronomer ; Sibrandus Fran(;ifcus Eydelfchemicus, 

 trom T. Faber, both in 4to. ; profefTor George Calixtus, 

 in folio ; Henry van Dieft, doftor of theology, from 

 Glauwe, in a quarto oval, and Charles II. of England, in 

 folio, from Ant. Vandyke. 



Levinus Cruylius, or Lewin Cruyl, was born at Ghent in 

 the year 1640, but embraced the ecclefiaftical life, and re- 

 fided at Rome. He drew and etched a conliderable number 



earlieft imprefhons are before the nudity of the infant was 

 covered with drapery. " The Holy Family," after Gafpar 

 de Crayer ; another " Holy Family," the fame, except 

 that the figure of St. Jofcph is crafud ; " St. Sebaftian, 

 with an Angel drawing an Arrow from his Body ;" after 

 Vandyke, all in large folio : and " King David," after 

 Ph. Champagne, in folio. 



The reader has probably already perceived that we are 

 now arrived at a period, when the natural operation of 



of views in Rome, enriched with figures and buildings in a commerce had tamed down engraving to the trading level, 

 very intelligent pleafing ftyle. Many of his drawings were and an engraver rarely appeared in the Low Countries 

 engraved by Julius Tefta, and we have alfo fome very fine worthy of particular notice, though ivortmm of that pro- 



etchings by himfelf, that are marked with a monogram 

 which will be found in Plate IV. of thofe ufed by the en- 

 gravers of the Low Countries. Of tbofe the chief are a 

 fet of twenty-three views of Rome, ancient and modern, in 

 large folio ; and another very large fet of Roman views, 

 with buildings and figures. 



fellion fwarmed both in Holland and in Flanders. 



The principle of the rapid acquifition of pecuniary pro- 

 fit, wliich is the main fpring of trade, feems to be effen- 

 tially at variance with all the nobler purfuits of art and fci- 

 ence. An extraordinary artift: — a phenomenon — may in- 

 deed now and then appear under luch circumftaaces; as 



Peter Phihppe, an artift of fmall account, was a native of Mr. Bird, in our own times, has ftepped majeftically forth — 

 Holland, born fome time about the year 164c. He en- the painter of pathetic fentiment — from the tea-board ma- 

 graved portraits, among which the following, thougli with- nufaftories of Birmingham ; but the gener;J principles of trade 

 out poflefling much merit, are probably the beft. are not to be the lefs regarded as deftruftive, or at leaft deeply 



A half-length of Louis Henry, prince of Naffau, in folio; injurious in their tendency, to all lotty intellectual effort, 

 ince Henry Charles de la Tremouille, after Vander Bane ; and all philofophical enquiry into thofe principles, on which 

 ~ ------- - improvement in art and fcience maybe perpetuated. To 



be exercilVd with honour and advantage to a nation, fine 

 art has ever required a nobler impulfe and more foftering 

 care, than the fhort-tightednefs of commerce has been in- 

 clined or prompted to beftow. The golden eggs of art 

 arc never laid fall enough for the cupidity of dealers. And 



prince . 



the aftembly of the States General of Holland, after J. 

 ToornfleS ; and a Dutch banquet, after the fame painter, 

 all of large folio fize. 



Peter van Schuppen was born at Antwerp in the year 

 1623. Of whom he learned the earlier rudiments of art 

 is not known, but he completed his ftudies at Paris, 



whither he was invited at the fame time with Edelinck, by the Cyclopedia might blufh to detail the records of fome 



the minifter Colbert. His juvenile talents muft therefore engravers, wlio found a degree of favour and proteftion 



have been of high promife. with the printftllers, which the word patronage was fome- 



At Paris, he very judicioufly placed himfelf under the times proftituted to exprefs, merely becaufe they nuorhcd 



inftru:tion of Nanteuil ; here he became juftly celebrated cheap, and worked fulimr//Ively. 



both for the number and merit of his engravings, and here 

 he died at an advanced age, A. D. 1702. 



He engraved a confiderable number of portraits, chiefly 

 from his own drawings, and in a ftyle wliich proves him to 

 have been a man of confiderable talent. The following are 

 a feleftion of his beft portraits, I'ome of which are very fine. 



Vot.XXI, 



Among thefe obfequious tools, the engraver who would 

 be content to afford the merchant the largeft (hare of profit, 

 it became his intereft to hold forth to the public, or to that 

 part of the fenfelefs herd on whom Fortune fhowers her fa. 

 vours in her moments of caprice, as the beft artift. Dif 

 heartened by preferences lo unprincipled, the engraver of 

 ^.; U modeil 



