LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



Rembrandt with the fpirit of Van Uden. The mark which 

 he frequently affixed to his engravings will be found in our 

 Pliite IV. of thofe ufed by the artilla of the Netherlands : 

 and the following is a feloftion of his bell works. 



A landfcape, with a barge unlading on the banks of a river; 

 a pair of landfcapes, with trees, water, and figures, in quarto, 

 executed in a very delicate ftyle ; a fifh-market, with figures ; 

 a Dutch inn ; a landfcape, with water and ruins ; and an- 

 other landfcape, with a number of turkies on the fore- 

 ground, all of folio fize. 



Valentine le Febrc, or Le Febure, was born at Bruffels 

 in the year 1642. In his youth he went to Venice to ftudy 

 the works of Titian and Veronefe, and acquired fome re- 

 putation as a painter. But his engravings, in general, are 

 feeble, and want harmony ; and the naked parts of his 

 figures are heavy and mannered. He, however, handled the 

 point with great facility, and produced good effefts of chiaro- 

 fcuro. 



In the year 1680, a fet of fifty engravings, by this artift, 

 appeared at Vienna, entitled " Opera feleftiora, qux Titi- 

 anus Vecellius Cadabrienfis, et Paulus Calliari Veronenfis 

 invencrunt ct pinxerunt ; qiiasque Valentinus le Febre 

 Bruxellenfis delineavit et fculpfit." In 16S2, another edi- 

 tion was pubhfhed, and in 1749 a third, with the plates 

 retouched by John Adam Schweighart, of Nuremberg. 



John Francis Milet, furnamed Franclfco, was born at 

 Antwerp in the year 1644. ^^ ^^^^ *^f French extrac- 

 tion, and becoming the difciple of Lorenzo Frank, was in- 

 ftrufted to imitate the learned and admirable ftyle of 

 Pouffin. 



He became a painter and engraver of epic and heroic 

 landfcape ; travelled to Paris, and from thence to England, 

 where he left fome tellimonials of his merit as an artitt. On 

 his return to Paris he was elefted a profefTor in the French 

 academy, and ended his days in that metropolis, in the year 

 1680, leaving behind him feveral children, of whom two 

 became pointers. 



The engravings of Francifco are juftly regarded with 

 fome intereft by connoiiFeurs. D'Argenville mentions the 

 fubjetls of only three, but the following are all after his 

 compofitions, and have every appearance of being the pro- 

 ■duSions of the fame hand. 



An heroic landfcape, with Egyptian edifices, "The Nile, 

 and Mofes floating in the Ark of Bultufhes." Another, 

 with the ftory of Cephalus and Procris ; a mountainous 

 fcene, with buildings and figures in the tafte of Pouffin ; 

 another with paftoral figures ; another with figures bathing ; 

 another, in which is introduced the ftury of the woman 

 of Canaan ; an Italian garden fcene with a bridge and 

 ; figures, and a pair of upright landfcapes, with ruined build- 

 ings and figures in the coftume of antiquity, all of large 

 folio dimenlions. 



Cornelius Vermeulen was barn at Antwerp in the year 

 1644. He travelled to Paris for profcllional improvement, 

 and refided there for fome years, but at length returned to 

 his native country, and died there in 1702. 



He handled the graver with judgment, his chiarofcuro is 

 tolerably good, and his Ityle of manual execution poffelTes 

 confiderable neatnefs and clearnefs ; but he did not under- 

 fland the human figure correftly enough to excel in hillori- 

 cal fubjefts, and hh parlmits are therefore his belt works. 



From thefe the collector may with advantage feleft thofe 

 of queen Elizabeth ; Anne Bo'eyn ; Catherine Howard ; 

 and Oliver Cromwell, all after Vander Werf ; John Bap- 

 tifta Boyer d'Aquilles; Louis de Clermont, bilhop of Leon; 

 Henry Meyercron, envoy to the court of Denmark from 

 France, all in fulio ; Maria Louifa d' Orleans, duchefs of 



Montpenfier, in an oval ; Louis de Luxembourg, marftial 

 of France ; Peter Vincent Bcrtim ; Bardo Bardi Magalotti, 

 a Florentine gentleman ; Jofeph Rocttiers, a medal engraver, 

 all from H. Rigaud ; Philip V. of France ; Maximilian 

 Emanuel, elcftor of Bavaria ; Nicholas de Latinat, marfhal 

 of France ; Agnes Frances Lelouchier, countefs o( Arco, 

 all after J. Vivier, in large folio ; Louis Urban le Fevre de 

 Caumartin, mafter of the Requefts, from F. de Troy, in 

 folio ; Francis Brunct, prefidcnt of the grand council, and 

 Mezetin Angelo Conltantine, both after the fame painter ; 

 Maria Louifa de Taffis and Nicholas vander Borcht, both 

 after Vandyke. 



Thefe are his principal portraits, which are all of folio 

 dimenfions. His few A^orjiru/ engravings that arc worthy 

 of notice, are " Erigone, with Bacchus under tlie Form of 

 a Bunch of Grapes," in folio, after Guido. On? of Ru- 

 bens's Luxembourg gallery, from the Life of Queen Mary 

 de Medicis, and a courtly allegory of " Louis XIV. con- 

 quering Herefy,'' from a marble group, by Le Conte, 

 both of folio fize. 



Adam van Zylvelt was born at Amilcrdam, A.D. 164c ; 

 under what mafter he ftudied is not known, but he evidently 

 imitated the ftyle of John Vificher. His principal works 

 confift of portraits, in the execution of which he rarely went 

 beyond mediocrity, and of thefe the chief are Coornhaert 

 the engraver, in 4:0. ; Stephen le Moine, a theologian of 

 Leyden ; Chriftophcr Wittichus, profefTor of the Leydeii 

 academy, and Herman Witfius, a theologian ; all from 

 J. Heyman, and all of folio fize. 



Albert Meyeringh was a painter and engraver of land- 

 fcape and ornament. He was born at Amlterdara in the 

 year 1635, and died in that city in 1714. 



Albert learned the rudiments of art of his father Fre- 

 deric Meyeringh, but owed the dcgice of excellence to 

 which he attained rather to his own genius, and his friend- 

 ffiip with Polydore, who was his fellow ftudent. In his 

 youth he travelled through France, and from thence to Italy 

 for improvement. Here he firft became acquainted with 

 Polydore, and here for ten years the two friends purfued 

 their ftudies together. 



Meyeringh now returned to Holland, and was much em- 

 ployed in painting the ceilings and other decorative parts of 

 various public edifices. He alf* painted landfcape, and 

 etched feveral foho plates, all from his own compofitions, in a 

 free and painter-like ftyle. Their fubjefts confift chiefly, 

 like thofe of the etchings of his friend Polydore, of rocky- 

 mountains, cataradls, and other romantic landfcape fcenery, 

 adorned with cattle, figures, and ruined edifices. 



Of the fuperior merits and general biography of John 

 Glauber, the reader will find an account under the article 

 Polydore. The etchings of this mafter are performed in 

 a flight ftyle, and their chiarofcuro is but feeble. Yet are 

 they valuable, on account of the claffic or paftoral beauties 

 of his compofition. 



He in general etched after his own piflures, but he pro- 

 duced one claffic landfcape with rocks and waterfalls after 

 Pouffin, and his allegorical fet ef the revolutions of the 

 four great nations of antiquity, which is intitled " Statum 

 Afl'yriorum, Perlarum, Graecorum, et Romanorum," is after 

 Gerard Lairefi'e, as is alfo " Abilhag before David." All 

 the prints of Polydore are of folio dimenfions. 



John Biffchop, or Epifcopiii's, was born at the Hague in 

 the year 1646, and died at Amilerdam in 16S6. He owed 

 his excelleiice as an artift entirely to his own genius, having 

 never ftudied under any mafter. He made defigns in dil- 

 temper with great tafte, and which are beautifully finifhed ; 

 and his etchings are very much eftcemed by conuoiffeurs, 

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