LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



Peter ;" •■ Chrift with Nicodemus," (half fijrures,) all 

 from Rubens ; " Jupiter and Danae," from a drawing by 

 Rubens, after Titian, all in 4to. ; " Venus and Cupid," 

 from a drawmg by Rubens, after Giorgione ; " St. Martin 

 dividing his Cloak with the Beggar," after Vandyke, in 

 large foUp ; " The Village Goatherd," and " Country Con- 

 veriatioj^" both in folio ; and a Itormy fea view, in large 

 folio, all from Teniers. ^ 



Krafft heightened fome of the impreffions from his en- 

 gravings with white chalk, which, from the difBcnlty of 

 preferving fuch works, are now become rare and va- 

 luable. 



Cornelius Trooft was born at Amfterdam in the year 1697, 

 and died in the fame city in 1750. He was the pupil of 

 Arnold Boonen, and befides engraving both in lines and 

 mezzotinto, he painted portraits, fancy fubjefts, and hiftory, 

 and was furnamed the Watteau of Holland, from the fparfc- 

 ling delicacy of his touch, and purity, and beauty of his 

 colom-ing. The etchings of this mafter are much fought 

 after for their truth and brilliancy ; he likewife fcraped feveral 

 fubjefts in' mezzotinto, among which are, a bull of an 

 old man with a long beard, and a girl drawing, both in 

 4to ; the portrait of. Pietro Locatelli da Bergamo, and 

 that of Vlaming, the poet, with two Dutch verfes beneath, 

 both i-n large folio, and all from his own drawings and 

 paintings. 



Phihp Endlick, or Endehck, was born at Amfterdam 

 A. D. 1700. He was the difciple of Bernard Picart, and 

 always refided in the place of his nativity. The following 

 portraits are engraven by him, frem his own drawings, and 

 are executed in a firm ftyle. John Taylor, the celebrated 

 oculift, of London ; Herlry, count of Moens ; John Philip 

 d'Almerie, governor of the ifle of St. Martin ; John Gofe- 

 wyn Eberhard Alllien, John Noordbeck, Peter Holle- 

 beck, and Leonard Beels, all clergymen of Amfterdam, of 

 folio fize. 



Peter Tanje was a native of Amfterdam. He was born 

 in the year 1700, and died in the fame city .in 1760. Tanje 

 was a laborious artift, and engraved a great number of 

 portraits, vignettes, &c. But his moft; confiderable work 

 is five plates, from the famous windows of St. .Tohn's 

 church at Gouda, and he likewife worked for the Drefden 

 gallery. The following are felefted from his engravings, as 

 being moft worthy the attention of the connoifleur. 



Portraits. — Peter Tanje, from J. M. Quickhard ; John 

 Maria Quickhard, both in folio ; Martin Luther, from 

 Lucas Cranach, in 410. ; Benjamin de Briffac, an ecclcfiaf- 

 tic of Amfterdam, from L. F. du Bourg ; Charles Lin- 

 naeus, profeflbr of botany atUpfal; John Ofterdyck Scheht, 

 doftor of medicine at the Utrecht academy, after Quickhard; 

 Albert Vogft, theologian ; John Beukelman de Honn, an 

 ecclefiaftic, from P. M. Brafler ; John van Marie, an ec- 

 clefiaftic of Rotterdam, after Curland ; Thomas Philip de 

 Boflu, cardinal and archbiftiop of Mechlin, from Snyers, 

 all in folio ; Lawrence Heifter, furgeon ; and Henry 

 Ulhonn, phyfician ; two medallions on the fame plate, from 

 Quickhard in 4to. ; William van Haren, regent of Frief- 

 land, from Akem.a, in an oval ; William, prince of Orange, 

 from F. de la Croix ; Geprge H. of England, from Faber ; 

 Charles VH. of Germany; Chriftina, queen of Sweden, 

 from Seb. Bourdon ; Guftavus Reinbeck, doftor of theo- 

 logy, from Pefne ; and M. Fagel, after G. J. Xavery, all 

 in folio. 



For the Gallery of Dre/dcn. — A man with a book, from 

 Correggio, known by the name of "The Phyfician of Correg- 

 gio/' in large folio ; a woman in a bonnet, after Rubens, 

 in foho ; " A dead Cb-ift," from F. Salviati ; " Children 



dancing before the Ahar of Love," from Albano, both 

 in large foho ; " Card Players," after Michael Angelo j 

 " Tarquin and Lucretia," from Lucas Jordaens, both in 

 folio ; " Jofeph and the Wife of Poliphar," half figures, 

 from Carlo Cignani ; and a portrait of a man, after Rem- 

 brandt, half length, both of folio fize. 



H'tJloricaU ^c- — " The Temptation of Job," after Trooft, 

 in 4to. ; " The Court of Law, of the Peafants of Puiter- 

 vcen," for the cabinet of M. Ploos van Aniftcl ; and its 

 companion, " The wicked Tavern-keeper at Puiterveen ;" 

 " Falfe Virtue or ftiam Sorrow ;" and its companion, " The 

 Tutor deceived," all in folio ; " The Philofophers, or the 

 runaway Girl ;" " The fick Chamber of the Dutch ;" and 

 " The Marriage of Chlorus and Rofetta," all in large folio, 

 after Trooil. 



Peter van Bleeck the younger was born in the year 1703, 

 fomcwherc in Flanders, but for the greater part of his life 

 refided in England, and died in London A. D. 1764. He 

 was a mezzotinto fcraper, and the fon of Richard van Bleeck, 

 a portrait painter ; he always added the word junior to his 

 name or cypher, for which fee Plate IV. of thofe ufed by 

 the artifts of the Netherlands. 



Moft of his works are portraits, and are executed in 

 a ftyle not inferior to that of John Sinith. The following 

 are fome of the moft important. Richard van Bleeck, 

 from a pi6\ure by himfelf; Francefco du Quefnoy, from 

 A. Vandyke ; Paul Rembrandt van Ryn, from a pifturc 

 by himfelf ; Eleanor Gwin, from fir Peter Lely ; Mrs. 

 Cibber in the charafter of Cordelia ; Mrs. Clive, in the 

 charafter of Phillida ; the comedians. Griffin and Johnfon, 

 in the characters of Tribulation and Ananias, all from hi:i 

 own drawings ; and " The Virgin with the Infant Saviour," 

 after Vandor Werff. The four lafl are in large foho, the 

 reft fomewhat fmaller. 



Arthua Schouman was born at Dordrecht in the year 

 1 7 10, and ftudied the principles of art under Adrian vander 

 Burg. Pie became a painter of fome repute, and in 1748, 

 he ettabliftied himfelf at the Hague, where he continued to 

 exercife his various talents in crayon and water colour, 

 painting; etching; mezzotinto fcraping ; and engraving on 

 cryftal, till toward the clofe of the century. 



Among his beft prints are a fmall etching of St. Francis ; 

 a man's head with muftachios, in 410 ; and a lady at her 

 toilette, in 4to. ; Saartze Jans, after Trooft, with fix Dutch 

 verfes ; a mezzotinto engraving in folio, and a party of 

 amateurs at the houfe of a painter, alfo after Trooft, and of 

 4to. fize. 



Simon Fokke was born A.D. 1712 at Amfterdam, and 

 ftudied engraving under John Cafpar PhiKps. He was a 

 man of patient mduftry and unremitting appli-jation, but 

 of little tafte, and no genius. The greater part of his 

 works condfts of fmall portraits and vignettes, which he 

 executed for the Dutch bookfellers with confiderable neat- 

 nefs. In the large hiftorical v.'orks which he attempted he 

 was far lefs fuccefsful. 



Among his bell produftions are the portraits for a work, 

 intitled " Portraits hifloriques des Hommes illuftres du 

 Dannemarc ;" it was publiflied in 1746, in 4to. : and alfo the 

 prints for another work, intitled " Arrivement et Sejour de 

 L. A. S. S. et R. Monfeigneur lo Prince Stadholder Here- 

 ditairedes PaysBas, et de Madame fonefpoufe, a Amfterdam 

 le 30 de Mai et jours fuivans, en 176S." Of his fingle 

 prints upon a larger fcale, the following are to be preferred. 

 A portrait of himfelf, in 4to. ; a view of the Y before 

 Amfterdam, in folio ; " The Statue of the Prince of Naf- 

 fau Weibourg," from Haag ; " Jacob keeping the Sheep 

 of Laban," from the Drefden gallery, after Efpagnoletto; 



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