LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



Francis Je Wilde was a native of Holland, born fome and was fo much iiiterelled in the general profperity of the 

 time about the year 1680; according to Hiiber, but pro- fine arts of his native country, that he became one of the 

 bably at a fomewhut earlier period, fince the etchings of mod diftinguifhed and ilrenuous advocates in Amflerdam for 

 his daughter were publifhed in 170^. He refidcd at the creftion of a public drawing academy in that city. 

 Amllerdam, where he etched and publilhed " The Angels Wandtlaar paid great attention to the (ludy of anatomy, and 

 appearing to Abraham;" " The Birth," or " Triumph of was acquainted with the three greateil anatomical profefTors of 

 Venus ;" views, of a fea-port, and the city of Chalons, the age, namely Ruyfch, Kant, and Albinus, for the great 

 a landfcape with reapers, and fome few other fubjedts, both work of the latter of whom he engraved the large anatomical 

 hiftorical and landfcape, which are believed to be all from figures, fo much and fo juftly admired. They were drawn 

 kis own compofitions. His etchings are performed in a from the fubjeCts themfelves by Wandelaar under the infpec- 

 pleafmg and fpirited (lyle, and the above were publidied tion of Albinus, who appears to have directed him, though, 

 early in the eighteenth century. copying from dead and flayed fubjcifls, to f.vell out the 



De Wilde aifo acquired fome celebrity by his colleftion mufcles to the natural plumpnefs of living and ftrong men. 

 of antique gems, which were etched by his daughter Mary, The plates are engraved m a clear llyle, well adapted to the 

 on fifty quarto plates, and publilhed at Amilcrdam, in the occafion, and were firft pnbliihed in the year 1 74.7. The 

 year which is mentioned above. work appeared under the title of " Tabiilas fcclcti et mufcu- 



.Fiihu Admiral, or P Admiral, was born at Leyden, A.D. lorum corporis hmnani," and was foo.c tranflated iiuo 

 16S0. Under whom he ftudied is not known, but his in- Englifh, and the plates copied by Grignion, Raveiict, 

 genuity was very confiderable, and he employed much of Scotin, and otliers. Wandelaar likcwifc painted portraits on 

 his lime in engraving natural hiftory and anatomy. The pafteboard ; and drew with great ability in red and black 

 anatomical plates which he engraved for the work of the chalks, frequently copying the pi£tureo of the old mailers, 

 celebrated Ruyfch are held in great cftimation, and his The following engravings alfo are by him. A fct of twelve 

 other mod important work is engraved from liis own cabinet quarto plates, of " The Bir-h, Life, and Death of Our 

 of infefts, tcvcolleft and arrange which occupied thirty years Saviour;'' the portrait of Herman Bocrhaave, profeflTor of 

 of his life, excepting that portion of his time which was medicine at the Leyden academy, in folio : and two oftavo 

 necefiarily fpent in his profellional purfuits as an engraver, plates of " The Grand Emir and his Wife ; or King and 

 This colkftion was engraved on tv/enty-four plates, and Queen of the wandering Arabs." 



publiflied by I'Admiral himfelf in 1746. Jacob Folkema was born at Docknm, in Friefland, in 



A. van der Laan was born at Utrecht in the year 1690. the year 1692, and eilablillied himfelf at Amllerdam, v.here 

 He travelled to France, and remained there fome years, he died A. i). 1767. He ftudied engraving under his father, 

 during whicli time he was chiefly employed by the Parilian and produced a great number of plates, of which fome are 

 bookfellers. afcer Picart, and others from his own compofitions. They 



The moll confiderable work we have by this artift, is a confiil chiefly in fuiall portraits, and vignettes for books, 

 fet of landfcapes, many of which are of the heroic and This artift had a filler Anne, who painted miniatures with 

 clafiical fubjcfts which were painted and drawn in Germany fome fuccefs ; and likewlfe made fome few etchings, 

 and Italy, by Polydore. They are etched in a very deli- The moll cfteemed of the engravings of Folkema are, an 

 cate ilyle, but on clofer examination they appear to want emblematical fubjecl on the death of the prince of Orange, 

 precifion. William IV. ; " Time unveiling a Bull of Francis Rnbelais," 



This artift alfo engraved a good number of plates after furrounded with allegorical figures, in quarto, an odd coin- 

 Van der Meulen, among which are the frontilpiece for pofition. A lion and dog llceping ; and its companion, a 

 Ryer's Alcoran, in quarto ; the portraits of Lawrence lion and cat fleeping, in fclio. The portraits of Michael 

 Coft.er of Haerleni, in folio ; a burlefque hunt ot dwarfs, Cervantes de Saavt-dra, from G. Kort ; John Ens, pro- 

 in large folio ; and two large folio plates of " The Vv'hale felTor of theology at Utrecht, after Colla ; Petrus de Maf- 

 Fifiiery." tricht, profelTor of theology at Frankfort, from the fame 



Peter Bout was a native of Bruflels, and was born painter; Humphry Prideaux, dean of Norwich, after E. 

 in the ye.ir 1690. He painted converfational fubjefts, Seeman jun. all in quarto.; Snethlagius, an eccleliaftic of 

 and always introduced the figures in the landfcapes of Amflerdam, from Anne Folkema, in folio; and " The 

 Bodevvyns. There are fome flight etchings by the hand Martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul," in large folio, after 

 of this artift, from his own compofitions ; among which Nicolo del Abbale, for the Drefden colledtion. 

 the following are the moil important. A fet of four land- Jacob de Wit was born at Anifterdam in the year 1695', 

 icapes, two of which are winter fcenes with ikaiters, the and died in the fame city in 1754. He was fucceflively the 

 third a poll chaife flopping at the door of an inn, and the difciple of Albert Spires, a portrait painter, and Jacob van 

 fourth is a marine fubjeft,! n folio. Halen, an hiftorical painter, but he greatly conduced to his 



A. F. Bargas was the countryman and contemporary of own improvement, by Iludying the piftures of Vandyke and 

 Bout. He executed fome few etchings- of landfcapes in a Rubens. De Wit painted hillory, and excelled in painting 



in imitation of bronze and marble baflTo -relievo. In the year 

 171 2, which muft have been while he was yet a youth of 



free and fpirited ftyle, both from his own compofitions and 



thofe of P. Bout ; which he ulually marked with the letters 



A. F. CO- biued in a cypher, and placed before his name. 



Among thefe are a fet of fix views of towns, villages, &c. 



embelhflied with figures from his own defigns ; and a fet of or aflifted Punt in engraving. He likewife et 



four after P. Bout, fiz. " A Fi(h Market ;" " The Bride other plates in a free intelligent ftyle, among whicl 



feventeen, he made drawings from the ceilings in the Jcfuits' 

 church at Antwerp, by Rubens, fome of which he engraved, 



~" " " " died a few 



h are " The 



conducted to Church ;" " A Country Wedding ;'" and 

 " A Village Fair," all of folio dimenfious. This laft fet was 

 publifhed, both with and without the names of the artifts. 



John Wanderlaar, or Wandelaar, was born at Anifter- 

 dam in the year 1692. He ftudied the principles of draw- 



Floly Virgin and Infant Saviour," in fmal! quarto ; and a 

 fet of four of groups of cupids and genii, varioufly en- 

 gaged, in large quarto ; the latter fet are probably his very 

 bell produftions in this art. 



John Punt was born at Amflerdam in the year 1 7 1 1 . He 



ing and engraving under Folkema and WiUiam van Cauwen j ftudied engraving under Van der Laan, and the art of paint- 



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