Line-Engraving. 



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Pieter Soutman. Haarlem, Antwerp, Warsaw. 1580-1657. 



Lucas Vorsterman, the elder. Antwerp, London. 1595-about 

 1675. 



Paul Pontius. Antwerp. 1603-58. 



Boetius a Bolswert. Bolswert, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels. 

 About 1580-1634. 



Schelte a Bolswert. Bolswert, Amsterdam, Antwerp. About 

 1586-1659. 



The same engravers also worked largely after Van Dyck, chiefly on 

 the portraits of his series called the Iconograjohy (first published in 100 

 prints in 1645 ; compare the section on Etching, p. 33). 



Other interesting Netherlandish engravers of the period were Cor- 

 nells Visseher (Haarlem; 1629 ?-58?), who frequently combined 

 engraving and etching, and Jonas Suyderhoef (Haarlem ; about 1610-86), 

 the best of the reproducers of Frans Hals. 



The trend of development in the history of engraving was then from 

 Flanders towards France, where the engraving of large portraits attained 

 its zenith in the reign of Louis XIV. 



Of these portrait engravers, the chief were : 



Michel Lasne. Caen, Paris. 1596-1667. 



Claude Mellan. Abbeville, Paris. 1598-1688. The chief exponent 

 of the swelling line in engraving (see note under Villamena — above, 

 p. 24 — from whom Mellan probably got his inspiration). 



Jean Morin. Paris. Before 1590 ?-1650. Combined engraving 

 with etching. 



Kobert Nanteuil. Rheims, Paris. 1623 (25 ?)-1678. The greatest, 

 and most original, of the French portrait engravers. 



Gerard Edelinck. Antwerp, Paris. 1643 ?-80. 



Antoine Masson. Loury, Paris. 1636-1700. 



Of the same period, and in his best work almost equal to the best 

 of the French engravers, was the English portrait engraver William 

 Faitliorne, the elder (London, Paris ; 1616-91). 



His followers, David Loggan (Danzig, England ; worked about 

 1658-90) and Robert White (London ; 1645-1704), are worthy of 

 mention. 



Abraham Blooteling (Amsterdam, England ; 1640-90) and Comelis 

 van Dalen, the younger, of Amsterdam (1642-65 '?), also showed great 

 accomplishment. 



Somewhat later, and tending to too great elaboration, are Pierre 

 Drevet (Lyons, Paris ; 1663-1738), and his son Pierre Imbert Drevet 

 (Paris; 1697-1739). 



This extremely delicate style is better suited for miniature portrait, 

 of which Etienne Ficquet (Paris ; 1719-94) is the best representative 

 in the XVIIIth century. 



During the XVIIIth century France still remained the chief centre 

 of line-engraving. There were two important groups : the engravers of 

 Watteau and his school, and the book illustrators of the latter half of 

 the century. Of the Watteau engravers, who, like most engravers after 



