LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



and Adonis," from his own compofition, companion to"Ce- 

 phalus and Procris," engraved bv Broedelct, after Gerard 

 Hoet; " Venus and Cupid ;" " Pan and Flora ;" "A 

 young Man and Girl converfnig," from Ochtenvelt, ail of 

 folio fize. 



Nicholas Verkolic was born at Delft in 1673, and was the 

 fon of the preceding artift. He became tin- pupil of his 

 father, and lucceeded in painting hiftorical fubjefts and por- 

 traits. He was alfo celebrated for his Indian ink drawings, 

 which he finilhed with great delicacy. Nicholas learned the 

 art of mezzotinto icraping from his father, ant! praftifed it 

 with rtill more fuccefs. The following are fome of his bell 

 engravings. 



Portraits. — Nicholas Verkolie, from a pifture by himfelf ; 

 the painter drawing from a model ; the amateur Moelards 

 with f folio, all in quai to ; .Tohn Peter Zomer, a con- 

 noiffeur, holding a print ni his hand, from A. Booner. Some 

 few impreffions were taken from this plate, without the 

 print, which is held by Van Zomer ; b\it thefe are exceed- 

 ingly rare ; Martin van Bockelin, from his own pifture ; 

 and Bernacd Picart, after Nattier, all in folio. 



Various, from his oiun Dijigns, and after ether Mailers. — 

 " The Holy Family," after A. vander WerfF ; " Diana and 

 Endymion ;" and its companion, " Bacchus and Ariadne," 

 both in folio; "A Shepherd careffing a Shepherdefs," in large 

 folio, all after G. Netfcher ; " An Entertainment in a 

 Garden," in folio, after J. B. Weninx ; " Two Men drink- 

 ing and fmoking,'' after A. Matham, in large folio ; " A 

 Youth afieep on a Girl's Lap," from his own defign ; " A 

 young Girl and her Lover having their Fortunes told.'" 

 " An old Man feated in a Garden, with a Girl, who holds 

 a Miniature in her Hand," both in folio. Heads of a man 

 and woman laughing ; a lap-dog playing on a chair ; and 

 two dogs at play, all in quarto, very delicate engravings. 



Solomon Savery was born at Amlterdam foon after the 

 middle of the 17th century, and by fome writers is faid, 

 with great probability, to have refidcd during part of his 

 life in England. Under what mafter he ftudied, if \inder 

 any, is not known ; but he handled his graver with a degree 

 of vigour, feehng, and charafteriftic touch which proclaims 

 origii al powers. The mechanical exaftnefs and regularity 

 of his hatchings, he, with great addrefs, rendered fubfervient 

 ^o his art of exprefhng the feveral furfaces which fo beau- 

 tifully diverfify the ample face of nature : his chiarofcuro is 

 fufficiently pcnverful ; and if the graver was not the fole in- 

 ftrument of his art, he very rarely employed the point. 



He produced, a few hiftorical fubjetts ; but his chief (ex- 

 cellence lay in portrait engraving, and he feems to have been 

 partial to fuch heads as were covered with hats, either be- 

 caufe he engraved the high-crowned hat, which was then in 

 fafhion, with confiderable ability, or becaufe he believed 

 that fo broad a mafs of darknefs which thefe hats afforded, 

 gave effedl to his faces. 



lAh principal Portraits are thofe of doftor Camphuyfen, 

 furrounded by an olive wreath, and three allegorical figures, 

 after C. Cadeyn ; Simon Epifcopius, and Andrea Calvius, 

 after Cuyp ; Ifaac Saaly of Ziriczee ; John Speed, the 

 Englifli chronicler, with his hat on, a very excellent plate ; 

 king Charles L with a high-crowned hat, the face of which 

 portrait is believed to have been taken from a pifture by 

 Vandyke, and the hat and the other accompaniments added 

 by Savery himfelf; and Thomas, lord Fairfax, alfo with a 

 hat on, all of folio fize. 



Hijlorieal Subjeas, i^c. — " Chrift expelling the Money- 

 lenders from the Temple," in large foho. A man's head 

 with mujlachios and fliort curly hair, both after Rembrandt, 



A errand entertainment given oh the water, in honour of 

 Mary of Medicis, after S. Vlieger, (which belongs to a fat 

 of engravings that were publilhed at Amfterdam in the year 

 1633, and entitled " Medicca Hofpes.") A grand procef- 

 fion, in large folio, after M. de Jonghe ; and a fet of feven- 

 teen etchings, of whi h the fubjeCls are taken from Ovid's 

 Metamorpholes, after F. Cleyn. 



Thomas Wyck, The, dore Maes, Julius Fran5ois, (fur- 

 named Norizoiiti), Louis Deyller, Charles de Moor, and 

 Richard and John van Orley, were Dutch and Flemifti 

 painters, who lived al this period, fome of whom performed 

 a few etcliings, and others of whom fcraped a few mez- 

 zotintos. 



The etchings of Wyck are fmall, but free and delicate. 

 Fourteen of them, which were in tli-; poffeniou of Mariette, 

 and were fold at his anction for three hundred and fix livres 

 and fix fous, are probably all that Wyck ever produced. 

 They confill of pafti>ral and military fubjefts, and are all 

 from his own compolitions. 



In thofe of Maes, much of painter-like intelhgence may 

 be difcerned. " The Holy Virgin and Infant Chrift, at- 

 tended by two Ang.ds ;" and a fet of fmall plates, of cavalry 

 (liirmifhing, &c. are all that we know of from the needle 

 of this artift. 



The elcliings of Horizonti, like thofe beautiful water- 

 colour piftures with fardiftant and fweetly-painied horizons, 

 from wliich he obtained his cognomen, are landfeapes in 

 which Tivoli and the Campania of Italy are frequent 

 features. 



Deyller filled up fome of his hours of feclufion with etch- 

 ing and mezzotinto fcraping ; and his produftions in thefe 

 arts partake of the charatter of his genius as a painter, of 

 which we have already treated. Among them is a fet of 

 four landfeapes, in rather a grand ilyle, of quarto fize, 

 which are rare and much efteemed. 



The excellence of De Moor lay in portraiture. He , 

 etched, in a fpirited manner, the heads of his mafter, Gerard 

 Douw, Van Goyen, and Mieris, and he alfo, according to 

 Baffan, fcraped a few plates in mezzotinto, of which we 

 know not the fubjefts. 



Richard van Orley was born at Bruffels, A. D. 1652, 

 and died in the fame city in 1732. He learned the element* 

 of art of his father, who was a landfcape painter of no great 

 eminence. He began by painting miniatiires ; but feeling 

 a delire to gain a more elevated Hation in art, he ftudied 

 in the fchools of defign with great affiduity, and became an 

 hiftorical painter of no mean talent. 



He likewife executed a confiderable number of etchings 

 in a flight coarfe ttyle, and which, in fome inftances at leaft, 

 are defeftive in point of drawing ; among them, the follow- 

 ing are the moll meritorious. 



" The Marriage of Joleph and the Virgin," after Lucas 

 Giordano, in folio ; " The Fall of the rebel Angels," a 

 large folio print, from Rubens ; " A drunken Bacchus, 

 fupported by Satvrs," from the fame painter ; and " Ver- 

 tumnus and Pomona," ?11 in folio. A fet of twelve, in 

 oftaro, from Guarini's " Paftor Fido." A fet of twenty, 

 eight folio plates, lengthways, taken from the New Tefta- 

 raent, from drawings by John van Orley. 



John van Orley was the brother of Richard, and did not 

 diftinguifti himfelf lefs as an artift ; he frequently made 

 drawings from pifturcs for the latter to engrave after ; and 

 likewife aflifted in engraving the fet from the New Teila- 

 ment, after his own defigns. 



John Gole was born at Amfterdam about the year 1660, 

 He worked with the gravet in flrokes, and fcraped feveral 



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