LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



'n folio ; " Chrill on the Mount of Olives," in large folio ; Peter van Giinft was born at Amfterdnm in the year 1667. 

 *' Chrid on the Crofs ;" " The Body of Chrift on the Knees This artill poffcned infinitely more patience than good tafte. 

 "of his Mother," accompanied by St. John and the holy He worked with the graver only, in a ftyle which feems 

 women ; " The Death of the Virgin ;" " The Aflumption evidently formed upon the works of the Drevets. His firft 

 of the Virgin," after a picture in the cathedral of Urbino, and fecond courfes of lines are eijiially neat, and equally 

 all in large folio ; " The Death of St. Jofeph," an etching powerful, which gives them a cold, filvery effeiS. The 

 in folio; "The Virgin diftributing the Rofary to the folds of his draperies, though not ill drawn, are marked too 

 Nuns," commonly called " Our Lady of the Rofary ;" harlhly, efpecially upon the outlines of the lighter parts of 

 " The penitent Magdalen ;" " The Martyrdom of St. them. His flefh is generally extremely neat, and linilhed 

 Blaife;" " St. Anthony of Padna kiffing the Foot of the with fmall dots; but the lights are too much covered, 

 Infant Saviour ;" "St. Philip of Neri ;" " James I. king which makes them appear heavy and laboured ; and he drew 

 of Italy, received among the Gods ;" " The finding of Ro- but incorreftly. His portraits are by far the bell, as well 

 mulu6 and Remus," all in large foho ; " Daphne purfued as the molt numerous of his works ; but they arc, in a great 

 by Apollo," after a pifture in the cabinet of the king of meafure, liable to the fame objeftions as his hillorical tub- 

 France, on two large plates. jefts. The following are feleCted from his works, as being 



Hijiorical, i^c after ■various Italian Majlers. — " The Na- of the mod importance : 



tivity of our Savionr," after P. da Cortona, in large folio ; Portraits. — Urbain Cherreau, from John Petitot. This 



a fet of five etchings from " The Life of St. Bibiene," the i.s believed to be the only print engraved after that mailer, 



fourth and fifth are from ftatues by Bernini, the remainder who was a celebrated enaiiiel painter. Cornelius de Witt ; 



from P. da Cortona ; a group of " Atalanta and Hippo- 

 mene," after Bernini ; " The Rape of the Sabines," from 

 John de Bologna ; " St. de Facunda," after Hiac. Brandi, 

 all in folio ; " The Birth of the Virgin," from Annib. Ca- 

 racci ; " The Flagellation," and " Supplication of St. 

 Andrew," both in large folio; and " St. Andrew tranf- 

 ported to Heaven," in folio, all from Dominichino ; " The 

 Holy Family, with St. Lvike painting the Portrait of the 

 Virgin Mary," after M. A. Francefchini of Bologna ; 

 " The Anger of Achilles," a large engraving on three 

 plates, dedicated to pope Innocent XI I., and after J. B. 

 Gauli ; and a very rare and large engraving of an allegorical 

 thefis, in which the fame pope appears feated on a throne, 

 or m the cliair of St. Peter, overcoming herefy, &c. : it 

 alludes alfo to the converfion of Frederic Auguftus, and 

 contains medallions of that prince and queen Chriflina of 

 Sweden. 



Arnold van Wefterhout was born at Antwerp in the year 

 1666. After learning the rudiments of en^jraving of his 

 father, he journeyed to Italy, and remained for fome time 

 at Florence, ftudying his art under the patronage of the 

 archduke Ferdinand, from wlience he removed to Rome, in 

 which metropolis he remained till the year 1730, which was 

 that of his death. His plates are executed with the graver 

 only, in a neat, clear ftyle ; but his chiarofcuro is feeble, 

 and the outlines of his figures are not always correft. He 

 engraved a confiderable number of plates from his own com- 

 pofitions, and fome few after other mailers, among which 

 the following are mod worthy of attention. 



Portraits. — Michael Angelo Zamburinus, fuperior of the 

 Jefuits, after Odati ; Julius de Arrighettis, fuperior of the 

 order of the Servites, after Dio. Godin, both in 4to. ; car- 

 dinal James Antony Moriga, after L. David ; and prince 

 Rofpoli, in an oval, from the fame painter, both in folio. 



Hijiorical., (jfc. after various Majlers. — " St. Peter No*' 

 lafque borne through the Clouds by two Angels," and 

 " ViAory," both from his own compofitions ; a female, 

 vnth. a unicorn, in a landfcape back-ground, after Caracci, 

 in 4to. ; " The Defcent from the Crofs," after Daniel de 

 Volterra, in large folio ; " The Virgin and Child," after 

 Carlo Maratti ; " St. Paul preaching at Athens," after J 



Charles de St. Evremond, after Parmentier, all m 410. ; 

 Balthafar Bekkcr of Amftcrdam, author of the Enchanted 

 World, after Webber ; Jahacob Saporteu, a famous rabbi 

 of Amfterdam ; Francis Valentine of Dordrecht, an eccle- 

 fiallic, after A. Houbraken ; Frederic Dekker, doftor of 

 medicine at Leyden, after C. de Moor, all of folio dimen- 

 fions ; Salomon van Til, theologian, from the fame painter, 

 in large folio ; Hero Siberfma, a clergyman of Amlterdam, 

 from Bo'Jaud; John William Trifo, prince of Naflau, after 

 B. Vaillant ; Boris, prince of Kurakin, miniller of the 

 Ruffian dates, after Kneller ; Didier Erafmus of Rotter- 

 dam, after Holbein ; Mary, queen of England, after Van- 

 der Werff ; Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland ; Frederic, 

 palatine, king ol Bohemia ; Elizabeth, his queen ; James I. 

 of Great Britain ; Hugh Latimer, bilhop of Worceder ; 

 Francis Junius, painter and author, all after Vander Werff; 

 head of William III. of England, after J. Brandon, all of 

 folio fize ; Charles II. of England, after F. Stampart, in 

 large_ folio; John Chiuxhill, duke of Marlborough, after 

 Vander Werff; a ftt of ten portraits, of Charles I., his 

 queen, and the Englifh nobihty of both fexes of his court, 

 whole length figures from Vandyke ; and a fet of nine, of 

 " the Loves of the Gods," after Titian, all in large folio. 

 The fame fet was engraved in mezzotinto by J. Smith. 



Bonaventura Overbeck, furnamed Romulus, was born at 

 Amderdam in the year 1667, and died in the fame city in 

 1706. He was the difciple of G. LairefTe, and publiihed 

 three folio volumes, (entitled " Rehquise antiqua: Urbis 

 Romx,") of the antiquities of Rome; to whicli city he 

 travelled three times, to make the neceflary dudies from 

 nature, after which his plates were etched : and hence he 

 obtained the cognomen of Romulus. His engravings are 

 much admired for their firmnefs of ftyle, and judicious dif- 

 tribution of light and fhade, and were publifhed at Rome 

 in the year 1709; but prefumptively there was an earlier 

 edition. 



Ifaac Mouchcron was likewife a native of Anifterdam, 

 and born in the year 1670. He was the fon of Frederic 

 Moucheron, an admirable landfcape painter, of whom he 

 learned the rudimental principles of art ; but at the age of 

 twenty-four, travelled to Rome for improvement, where he 



B. Lenardi ; " The Mufes protefting the Monuments of made a great many drawings of Tivoh, and other places in 



fine Art from the Ravages of Time," all in folio, from the and about Rome. After his return to Amftcrdam, he foon 



fame painter ; " The Elevation of Virtue, and DeprcfTion became known by his excellent lansJfcapes, enriched with 



of Vice," dedicated to Lazari Pallavicini, in large folio; figures and animals, which are held in the highed edima- 



" A Woman kneeling, crowning an Eagle, accompanied by tion. This artijt executed a confiderable number of etch- 



Pegafus," perhaps the mufe of Pindar, after S. David, in ii^gs, in a very delicate dyle ; the moft important of which 



folio. , are a fet of twenty-fix folio plates, entitled " Views of 



2 Heemlled, 



