Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/catalogueoffineaOOfine J. HVBERTO AB EYCK , IOANJSTlS FRATRI; PICTORI. Quas modo communes cumjratre, HuSerte, merenti yyittnfuit Czudes noftra T&afia tiCi, Si non Jujficienl : addatur et iffa, tua yuva 7 ^isrijudus ^ Jrattr e} fuperavtf apt yjtvc vejfrum docet ilTu<{ opus (ran/enfe. P/ti/ippum Quo(£ Regem lanto cepit amore Jut: Eius vt: acC palrws mittentfum exemplar items tCoxennl fieri iufserit if(e manu. ■ , Mechlvuen uifuji:.' ft GaUt ncc. luu tttnfe yutjy THE PORTRAITS ^=**- OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS, AND OTHER FAMOUS ARTISTS, That have flourifhed in E UR OPE, Curioufly Engraved on above One Hundred Copper Plates. B Y F. Bouttats, P. De Jode, Senior, P. De Jode, Junior, W Hollar, P. Pontius, J. Vorsterman, C Waumans, &c. From Original Paintings of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Gonzalo Coques, Peter Dankerse de Ry, Cornelius Janssens, James Jordaens, John Meyssens, 'Erasmus- Quellinius, Guido Rheni, Nicholas de Helt Stocade, David Teniers, Thomas Willeborts Bossaert, and other celebrated Masters. To which is prefixed, An Account of their Lives, Characters, and moll con- fiderable Works, in French and Englijh. Collected from the beft Authors extant, and the Original Manufcripts. L 0 N D 0 Ns Printed for and Sold by Olive Payne, Bookfeller, at Horaces-Head, in Round- Court in the Strand; and W. H. Toms, Engraver, in Union-Court, near Hatton- Garden 3 Holbonu M'PCCXXXIX. PREFACE- MONG all the beautiful and delightful Arts, that of Painting has always found the moll Admirers -, (the Number of them almoft including all Mankind): Con- fuls, Emperors, and Kings, &c. have entertained themfelves with the Exereife of this Art. Fabius, a noble Roman, painted the Temple of Health in Rome, and gloried fo much in his Perfor- mances there, that he affumed to himfelf for ever after, the Sirname of Pictor, and thought it no Dif- paragement to one of the moft illuftrious Families in Rome, to be diftinguiihed by that Title. Fainting and Sculpture, as well as all other Arts dependant on 2)?- Jign, greatly flourilhed daring the Reigns of the twelve Ccefars: And we are informed, that under their Suc- ceffors, Nerva and Trajan, they Ihined with a Luftre almoft equal to what they had done under Alexander A 2 the PREFACE. the Great. It is likewife certain, that the Roman Em- perors, Adrian, Antonine, Alexander Severus, Conjian- tine,zndf/alentinian, were not only generous Encoura- gers of theje Arts ; but alfo in the Pra6tice of them fo well skilled, that they wrought fever al extraordinary Pieces, with their own Hands : and by their Example, as well as their Patronage, raifed up many confide- rable Artijis, in both Kinds. Several of the German Emperors have fpent many Hours with a Pallet and Pencils ; and in the laft Cen- tury, Lewis XIII. King of France, by the Inftruc- tion of Simon Vouet, became a good Proficient : And our own King Charles I. delighted more in Painting, than in all the other Sciences, as much a Matter as he was of all. The late excellent §tyeen Mary, and her Royal Sifter, the late §tyeen Anne of glorious Memory, were both inftru&ed in this Art, by Mr. Richard Gibfon, commonly called the Dzvarf. All the Children of the §tyeen of Bohemia, Daughter to King Jamesl.were taught to paint by Gerard Honthorji ;and among the Reft, the Prrncefs Sophia (Grandmother to his Prefent moft Sacred Majefty King George II.) who, with her Sifter the Abbefs of Maubuijjon, diftin- guifhed themfelves by their Skill in Painting. Nor does the Efteem for this Science decline in the pre- fent Generation ; all the Children of his prefent Ma- jejty having learned to defign: The Princefs Royal of Great PREFACE. Great Britain and Orange in particular, is faid to be an excellent Performer in Miniature ; and the Princejjes Amelia, and Carolina, have made this Art their Study. His Royal Highnefs the Duke, and the Princejjes Mary and Louifa, have likewife attained to a good Proficiency in Drawing, by the Inftru6tion of Mr. Ber- nard Lens, Limner in Ordinary to his Majejiy. Not only the Art itfelf, but the Profejfors thereof, have had the greateft Regard paid them by the moft illuftrious Perfons, of all Ages and Nations. Alexander the Great, was not fo fond of his beautiful and charm- ing Miftrefs Campafpe, as of his Painter Apelles ; for he parted with her, to gratify him. I have already faid, how much the Roman Emperors patronized this Art ; and in latter Times, the Sovereigns of moft Kingdoms in Europe have not been content with the Pofleffion of the moft excellent Paintings ; but have caufed the Painters themfelves to live in their Palaces, in Apartments near their own • as will appear on peruling the following Sheets. Not to mention the great Honours conferred on thofe of the Profeflion, by the Emperors of Germany, the Kings of France, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, &c. as well as many of the Popes ; I fhall take Notice of the great Regard paid to Artijis by the Court of Great Britain : King Charles I. (as already faid) had this Science in PREFACE. in fuch Efteem, that by Means of the great Earl of Arundel^ he caufed the moft eminent Painters, of dif- ferent Countries, to come and refide in his Metro- polis. In his Reign the Art of Painting flouriihed more than in any Age before, or (perhaps) fince. The faid King, receiving the utmoft Satisfaction from their Performances, not only gratified them all with magnificent Prefents, but conferred on three of them the Honour of Knighthood ; viz. Sir Peter Paul Ru- bens, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, and Sir Balthazar Gerbier ; the laft of whom he alfo made Majier of the Ceremonies. Several of the Perfons fpoken of in this Book, have likewife, by their great Merits, born confiderable Offices in the State, as the afore- faid Sir Peter Paul Rubens, John of Bruges, Otho Ve- nius, and others. As to the Publication of this Book, it is prefumed it will be acceptable to the Curious ; not only as it contains an ample Account of the Lives of the moft Eminent Painters J and other Artifts; but at the fame Time prefents to View their true Portraitures, en- graved by the beft Hands, from original Paintings of the greateft Mafters: For it is an Obfervation of a celebrated and judicious Author of our own Coun- try, That moft Men are defirous of being acquainted with the P erf on of an Author, as well as with his W orks. INDEX. I N D E B. JAcob Backer David Ballii J ohn WilliamBauur David Henry Abraham Simon John Leonard Adrian Peter Nicholas John James Richard Gonzalo Dirick Theodore Cornelius John Cornelius Peter James Adrian Gafpar Nicholas Peter Peter Henry Stephen Beck Berckmans Blomaert Bosboom Both Bramer Brouwer Brugel Bruyant Bylert C. Callot Collin Coques Corenhert Corenherc Core Coffiers D. Dackerts de Ry Danckerfe de Ry D'Arthois De Bie De Crayer De Helt Stocade De J ode Sen. De Jode yun. De Keyfer De la Bella Page 22 33 19 24 40 5 59 24 3 1 61 45' 6! 21 57 61 35 60 53 53 33 35 29 30 35 56 57 53 60 Plate 24 48 18 3i 73 7 95 30 44 1 02 76 101 20 92 100 57 99 80 79 47 52 i 7 8 34 5 2 54 39 42 56 83 9i 81 98 Deodate Jerom Paul Ad am Luke Luke Peter Del Mont Du Bois Du Pont E. Elfheimer F. Faydherbe Franc hoys Franchoys G. Sir Bahhafar Gerbier H. Wenceflaus Hollar Henry Hondius Gerard James Nicholas Charles James Honthorft: J. Jordaens K. Knupfer L. Le Brun M. Matham Page 22 2 57 57 38 2 3 31 59 56 2 5 29 20 46 54 Plate 3 89 90 29 43 9 6 87 32 41 77! 84 Peter I N D E X. Peter John Meerte Meyffens P. Francis of Padua Bonaventure Peters John Peters Cornelius Poulenbourgh Erafmus Aertus Quellinius Quellinus R. Guido Rheni Sir Peter PaulRubens Giles John Raphael Herman Rowland Daniel Gerard Peter Francis David David Peter John Peter S. Sadeler Sadeler Sadeler Saftleven Savery Segers Segers Snayers Snyders T. Teniers, Senior TenierSj Junior Telia V. Van Balen Van B.edael Page 37 39 Plate 62 .69 21 28 26 34 38 63 3 2 45 12 46 60 97 7 10 9 1 1 86 54 82 54 83 33 49 2 1 22 27 36 18 1 r 28 37 14 12 23 26 36 58 44 75 2 1 2 1 39 67 John John Henry Henry John Baptift Abraham Sir Anthony James Hubert John Theodore Daniel John Baptift Leo Robert John Peter Adrian William Adam Charles George John Philip Octavio Adrian Adrian Peter Toby Simon James Adam Thomas Francis Van Bronchorfl: Van den Hecke Vander Borcht Sen VanderBorchtJ^// Van Deynum Van Diepenbeke Van Dyck Van Es Van Eyck Van Eyck Van Harlem Van Heil Van Heil Van Heil Van Hoeck Van Keffel Van Lint Van Nieulant Van Nieulant Van Oort Van Savoyen Van Son Van Thielen Van Veen Van Venne Van Utrecht Verbrugghen Verhaecht Vouet Vrancquart W. Willaerts WilleboertsBoffaert Wo uters Page Plate 7A. CO 38 64 22 2? 7 O 68 40 7 r 74- c 1 j - I c J 14 20 ✓ j I 1 I 2 7 4 34 J J 77 60 Co 0 i 77 CO j y 40 72 •J J j j 21 0 27 I r 1 1 c j 6 18 66 40 77 61 3 5 40 29 l 9 16 59 94 A \J Q O A r> 74 r r j j . 8r °5 T 9 J 7 2 5 33 27 35 A N A N ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES OF THE i Moft eminent Pa i nters, and other famous Art i sts. 1. Hubert Van Eyck, and 2. John Van Eyck, commonly call'd John of Bruges, ERE Brothers, and Natives of Ma ff eyck on the Meufe : Hubert was born in 1366, and John in 1 370, They were the nrft Painters in the Low Countries that did any Thing worth Notice ; for which Reafon they are reckon'd the Founders of the Flemijh School. They had both Genius and Skill : They work'd together, and became famous by their Per- formances : They drew feveral Pictures for Philip the Go?d, B Duke a Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. Duke of Burgundy ; that which was fet up in St. Johns Church at Gaunt was univerfally admir'd. Philip I. King of Spain, not being able to obtain the Original at any Price, got a Copy of it, at the Expence of 2000 Ducats, which he carried into Spain with him. The Subject of this Piece was taken out of the Revelations, where the old Men adore the Lamb ; it con- lifts of 330 Figures, the Faces being fo diverfify'd as to caule Admiration in the Spectators. This Picture is to this Day efteem'd a wonderful Piece of Art : Having been carefully pre- ferv'd ; 'tis ftill very frefh, being never expos'd to View but on Holidays, or at the Defire of Perfons of the firft Quality. Hubert died in 1426, and was buried in the Cathedral at Gaunt ; after which, his Brother John remov'd to Bruges, where he took up his Refidence, and from thence was call'd John of Bruges. 'Twas this John, who, in feeking for a Var- nifh that might give more Force to his Colouring, found out that Linfeed-Oil, mix'd with Colours, had a very good Effect, without ufing any Varnifh at alJ. His Works increafing in Beauty, were bought up by the Great, and had the iirft Places in their Cabinets. He was efteem'd as well for the Solidity of his Judgment, as for his Skill in Painting. The Duke of Bur- gundy had fo good an Opinion of his Merit, that he made him a Counfellor of State. He died at Bruges in 1441, and was buried in the Church of St. Donatus, according to his own De- fire. His Sifter Margaret would never marry, that fhe might be the more at Liberty to exercife herfelf in Painting, which fhe paflionately lov'd. 3. Hierom Boschius, or Jerom Dubois, IT A D a peculiar Inclination to paint Apparitions and Spi- rks. In a Piece of his reprefenting Hell, is moft admi- 1 rably defcribed the horrid Shapes and Deformity of the infernal Spirits, Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. g Spirits ; the ftrange Punifhments of the Daimi'd, in Rivers, as it were of Fire tempeftuoully rolling, and mingled with thick Darknefs and Smoke : So that his Paint i?ig caufes rather a Hor- ror mixt with Admiration, than any Delight to behold. Several of his Pieces were carried to the Efcurial, and plac'd there by Order of the King of Spain. He died about the Year 1500. 4. Theodore Van Harlem FLourifh'd in the Year 1462, as appears by a Piece of his at Leyden, upon which is written in Golden Letters in Latin to this Effect Theodore of Harlem made me at Louvain in the Year 1462. God grant him everlafting Reft. This is all that remains of him, yet is enough to evidence that he was an excel- lent Artift. 5. Octavio Venius, or Otho Van Veen, WAS born at Ley den in the Year 1558, of a confiderable Family, his Father being one of the principal Magi- Jlrates of that City : He was educated under Cardinal Groef- beck, Bifhop and Prince of Liege, and learn'd at the fame Time to delign of Ifaac Nicholas : He was but fifteen Years old, when the Civil Wars oblig'd him to leave his Country ; he retir'd to Liege, finifh'd his Studies, and there gave the firft Proofs of the Beauty of his Mind : The Cardinal gave him Letters of Re- commendation when he went to Rome, where he was entertain'd by Cardinal Maduccio. His Genius was fo extenfive, that he at once apply'd himfelf to Philofophy, Poetry, the Mathema- ticks, and Painting : He became a great Proficient in Defigning under the Difcipline of Frederico Zucchero ; and acquired an Excellence in all the Parts of Painting, efpecially in the Know- ledge of the Claro-Ofcuro, by which he was reckon'd in Italy, B 2 to 4- Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. to be one of the molt ingenious and univerfal Men of his Age? He lived at Rome feven Years, during which Time he per- form'd feveral extraordinary Pieces ; and then palling into Ger~ many, was receiv'd into the Emperor's Service. After this, the Duke of Bavaria, and the Elector of pologn employ'd him, and entertain'd him with Refpect fuitable to his Deferts ; but all the Advantages that he got by his Service in the Courts of Fo- reign Princes, could not detain him there ; he had a Delire to return into the Low-Countries, whereof Alexander Farnefe, Prince of Parma, was then Governor for the King of Spain , who made him his Engineer and Painter : He drew his Picture arm'd Cap-a-pee, which confirm'd his Reputation in the Ne- therlands. He was of fo excellent a Difpofition, that being join'd with great Learning and Induftry, made him belov'd by all the Court. After the Death of the Prince, he retired to Antwerp, where he adorn'd the principal Churches with his Paintings, The Archduke Albert (who fucceeded in the Go- vernment of the Low-Countries) fent for him to Bruffels, and made him Mafier of the Mint ; and tho' it took up much Time to officiate in that Port, Otho found Leifure to exercife himfelf in his Proferllon : He drew the Portraits at full Length of the Archduke, and the Infanta Ifabella his Wife, which were fent to James I. King of Great-Britain : And to mew his Knov/- ledge of Polite Learning as well as Painting, he publifh'd feve- ral Treatifes, embel liming them with Cuts of his own Deigning, as Horace's Emblems, The Life of Thomas Aquinas, and The Emblems of Love, which he perform'd with a great deal of Art and Grace. V emus dedicating the Emblems of Profane Love to the hifanta Ifabella, fhe oblig'd him to do the fame by vine Love. Lewis XIII. King of Fra7tce made him very ad- vantageous Offers to tempt him to enter into his Service ; but he would not leave his own Country, fatisfying himfelf with the Character and Employments he there enjoy'd. He was the Lives of Eminent Painters, 6rV. 5 firft flnce Polidore Caravaggio that reduc'd the Claro-Ofcuro to a Principle of the Art of Painting. He had the Glory of Forming the Mind of Rubens, the Apelles of that Age, who perfected what Venius began, and the whole Flemipj School learn'd it of him. Otho died at Brujfels May 6, 1629, aged 7 1 , according to fome Authors ; but others fay he liv'd till 1634. He had two Brothers, Gilbert, who was an Engraver, and Peter, a Painter : He left behind him two Daughters, both, excellent in their Father's Art ; the Eldeft, nam'd Cornelia, was married to a rich Merchant at Antwerp', the other Gertrude^ who hath fignaliz'd both her Love to his Memory, and her own Skill in Painting, by Drawing his Picture in the Manner as it is here reprefented in Print. 6. Adam Van Oort WA S the Son and Difciple of Lambert V an Oort, born at Antwerp in the Year 1557. He painted in large, and had the Reputation of being a Mafter, on Account of the many magnificent Defigns, which are to be found in the Collections of the Curious. He was fb full of Bufinefs, that he had not Time to travel out of his own Country : He was Rubens 's firft Mafter ; and having liv'd to the Age of eighty-four Years, died at Antwerp, and was there buried in 164.1. 7. Abraham Blomaert WAS born at a Place call'd Borcttm in Holland, about the Year 1567. His Father Cornelius Blomaert was an Ar- chitect, whom he follow' c\ to Utrecht, where he was educated, and always liv'd : His Mafters were fome ordinary Painters that he met with by Chance, and he look'd upon the Time he fpent with them, as fo much thrown away. He form'd a Manner to himfeh 6 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. himfelf after Nature, and as his Genius directed him : It wa s eafy, fruitful, graceful, and univerfal : He underftood the Claro- Ofcuro ; the Folds of his Draperies were large, and had a good Effect ; but his Gout of Defigning had too much of his own Country in it A great Number of Prints were done by the beft Engravers after his Works. He died about eighty Years of Age in 1647, having three Sons, of whom Cornelius the youngeft was an excellent Engraver. He generally wrote his Name abbreviated in this Manner *, Ab. Bl. in. 8. Toby Verhaecht, BORN at Antwerp in the Year 1566, was an excellent Painter of Landfkips, and inftaucTied Rubens in that Branch of the Art: He died in the Year 1631. The Picture from whence this Print was taken, was painted by Oclavio V mius, fpoken of before* 9. Adam Elsheimer, BORN at Frankfort upon the Mayn> in 1574, was the Son of a Taylor, and at firft a Difciple of Philip Uffenbach or Oudenbach^ a Man of Senfe, who, aiming at a great many Things, had little Experience in the practical Part of the Art, tho' he was Matter of the Theory. Adam having learnt of him as much as he could teach him, went to Rome, where he fpent the Remainder of his Days. He was very ftudious, and flnilh'd extremely every Thing he did : His Colouring was good, and his Compofitions ingenious. Count Gaude of Utrecht grav'd , feven Pieces after him with equal Finenefs and Force : Sqveral other Prints were engrav'd after his Works, Part of which he etch'd himfelf, and fome were grav'd by Madalain du Pas r and • others. Lives of 'Eminent Painters, &c. 7 others. His Memory was fo good, that having feen a Thing, he wou'd keep it in his Mind for fome Time, and then paint it exactly, without defigning it when he faw it : Fie was an ex^ cellent Artift in Landskips, Hi/lory, and Night-Pieces with fmall Figures. Flis Works are very few, being hardly any where to be. found but in the Cabinets of Princes. He was naturally of a melancholy Difpofition, his chief Amufement being amongft Tombs and Ruins : Tho' he liv'd in Reputation at Rome, and Ibid his Pi&ures.at high Prices, yet he took up fo much Time in finiming them, that he could not fell them for enough to anfwer the Expence of hisHoufe ; this encreas'd his Melancholy, fo that he neglected his Bufinefs, and liv'd only upon what he cou'd bor- row ; by which Means he ran fo far in Debt, that not being able to extricate himfelf out of it, he was thrown into Prifon, where he fell fick ; but tho' he was foon releas'd, his Diftemper conti- nued, which (with his Anxiety of Mind, occafion'd by his Trouble and Difgrace) carried him to his Grave in the Year j 610, aged 36. The Italians themfelves, who had a particu- lar Efteem for him, lamented his Lofs. James Ernejl .Thomas of Landau was his Difciple, whofe Manner was fo like his Mailer's, that his Pictures are often taken for Eljheimers* Adam JZlfieimer usd this Mark, AJE.. 10. Guido RhenI; WAS born at Bologna in 1574 ; and having learn'd the Rudiments of Painting under Dennis Calvert^ a Flemijh Mailer, was refin'd and polifh'd in the School of the Carraches,. He chiefly imitated Ludovicos Manner, becaufe he found more Grace and Grandeur in his Compositions, than in thofe of his Kinfmen : He acquired fome Skill alfo in Mufick, by the In- ftrudions of his Father, an eminent Profeffor of that Science., Great were the Honours he receiv'd from Pope Paul V. from all 8 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. all the Cardinals, and Princes of Italy ; from the French King .Lewis Xill. from King Philip IV. of Spain, and alfo from Via- ■diflaus, King of Poland and Sweden ; who (befides a noble Re- ward) made him a Compliment, in a Let er under his own Hand, for an Europa he had fent him. He was extremely hand- fome, and graceful in his Perfon ; and fo very beautiful in his younger Days, that his Mafter Ludovico in painting his Angels, took .ham ah\ ays for his Model : Nor was he an Angel only in his Looks, if we may credit what the Chevalier Giofeppino told the Pope, when he afk'd his Opinion of Guido\ Performances, in the Capella ^uirinale. Our PiSlures (laid he) are the Work of Mens Hands, but thefe are made by Hands Divine. In his Behaviour he was modeft, gentile, and very obliging ; liv'd in great Splendor both at Bologna and Rome, and was only unhappy in his immoderate Love of Gaming : To which, in his latter Days, he had abandon'd himfelf fo entirely, that all the Money he could get by his Pencil, or borrow upon Intereft, being too little to fupply his Loffes, he was at laft reduc'd to fo poor and mean a Condition, that the Confederation of his prefent Cir- cumftances, together with Reflections on his former Reputa- tion, and high Manner of Living, brought on him a languim- ing Diftemper, which occafion'd his Death, in the Year 1642, and the 68 th of his Age. There are feveral Defigns of this great Majler etch'd by himfelf. He usd for his Mark the initial Letters of his Name, G. R. and fometimes G. R. F. fegnifying Guido Rheni Fecit. In the Overthrow of the Giants, engravd by Bartholomeo Coriolano, are thefe Letters, G. R. B. C. F. 11. Sir Lives of Eminent Painters, &ci 9 11. Sir Peter Paul Rubens WA S defcended of noble Extraction, being Son of John Rubens, who held the Office of Counfellor in the Se- nate at Antwerp : The Civil Wars breaking out, oblig'd him to leave his Country, and retire to Cologn, in which City his Son was born June 28, 1577, upon the Feaft of St. Peter •, and St. Paul, and from thence was nam'd. The Care his Parents took of his Education, and the Vivacity of his Wit, made every Thing eafy to him that he had a Mind to learn : He had fo great a Genius, that 'twas thought his Merit would advance him to his Father's Poll:. But he had not refolv'd upon any Profef- fion when his Father died ; and the Troubles in the Netherlands abating, his Family return'd to Aittwerp. He continued there his Studies, and at his leifure Hours, diverted himfelf with De- figning ; feeling in himfelf a ftrong Inclination to the Exercife of that Art, he was carried away by a fecret Impulfe of Nature, who had fow ? d the Seeds of it deep in his Mind : His Mother perceiving his Delire to improve himfelf in it grow every Day ftronger, permitted him to learn to delign of Adam V an Oort y a Painter of fome Note ; but when Rubens had been long enough with him to fee that he was not for his Purpofe, he remov'd to Otho V emus, who was not only a good Painter, but a Man of Wit, Mafter of the Principles of his Art, and well vers'd in other Kinds of polite Literature : Thefe good Qualities agreeing with Rubens 's Genius, the Mafter and Difciple contracted an in- timate Friendmip ; and this was the Occalion of his giving him- felf up entirely to his Art, which he at flrft intended to learn only for his Amufement, to which the Loffes his Family fuftain'd in the Civil Wars, were no final l Inducement. He learn'd with fo much Eafe, and work'd with fuch Ap- plication, that 'twas not long before he equall'd his Mafter. He C only io Lives of Eminent Painters, &c only wanted to improve his Talent by Travel : To that End he- went to Venice, and in the School x>f "Titian, perfected his Know- ledge of the Principles of Colouring. In this City he became acquainted with one of the Duke of Mantua % Gentlemen, who propos'd to him, on Behalf of his Mafter, to enter into that Duke's Service in the fame Quality. The excellent Paintings which were at Mantua, and of which Rubens had heard a great Character, were the chief Motives to his accepting this Propofal. He foon grew in Credit at the Court of Mantua, where, having carefully ftudied Julio Romano s Works, he made no long Stay ; but went from thence to Rome, and with the fame Care ap- plied himfelf to the Study of the Unique, the Works of Ra- phael, and every Thing that might contribute to perfecting him in his Art. What was agreeable to his Tafte he made his own, either by copying, or making Reflections upon it, which he prefently wrote down ; and he generally accompanied thofe Re- flections with Deligns drawn with a light Stroke of his Pen, carrying always about him two or three Sheets of Blank-Paper for that Purpofe. While he was at Rome, he drew the Pictures for the Altar of the Church of Santa Croce, and others for the Chiefa Nova, belonging to the Fathers of the Oratory. He had been feven Years following his Studies in Italy, when he receiv'd Advice that his Mother was dangeroufly ill : Upon which, he immediately took Port, and return'd to Antwerp. Soon after he married Katharine de Brents, who liv'd with him but four Years : He lov'd her extremely, and when fhe died, was fo troubled at her Death, that he left Antwerp for fome time, endeavouring to divert his Sorrow by a Journey to Holla?ul. He went to Utrecht, to viflt Hon tor/?, for whom he had a great Eiteem. Sandrart, who was then Hontorft\ Difci- ple, waited upon Rubens to all the Cities of Holland, who fa id, that as they were on their Way from one Town to another, Ru- bens (fpeaking of the Works of the Painters that he had feen Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. i i in his Journey) preferred Ho?itorjl\ Manner of Painting, and Blomaerts Compolitions, to any he had feen ; and that he was fo in Love with Cornelius Polemburvtis Pictures in Little, that he defired him to draw forae for him. Rubens\ fecond Wife was Helena Forman, who v/as of great Service to him when he painted the Figures of Women. Rubens\ Reputation fpreading over all Europe, there was not a Painter but coveted fomething of his Performance ; and he was fo importun'd on. this Account, that he was forc'd to leave his Defigns to be executed by his Difciples, whofe Pictures he touch'd over again with frefh Views, a lively Underftanding, and a Readinefs of Hand, anfwerable to the Quicknefs of his Wit, which got him a good Eftate in a fmall Time : But there is fo great a Difference between thefe Pieces, and thofe that were entirely his own ; that the former are an Injury to the Reputa- tion of the latter. Queen Mary de Medicis, Wife of Henry IV. King of France^ being defirous that Rubens fhould paint the Luxemburg Galle- ries at Paris, invited him thither : At her Requeft, he went to take a View of the Places, and draw his Defigns for two of thofe Galleries : The Hiftory of that Queen's Life was intended for the Subject of one, and the Life of King Henry for the other. Rubens began firft the Queen's Gallery, which he fi- riifh'd : But the King's Deadi happening foon after, hinder'd the compleating the Hiftory of his Reign, towards which he had begun feveral Pictures. The Queen, who lov'd Painting, and deli gn'd very neatly herfelf, oblig'd Rubens to draw two of the Pictures that were Part of her Story, in her Prefence, that flie might have the Pleafure to fee him paint. While Rubens was at Paris, the Duke of Buckingham going thither, was taken with his good Senfe ; and finding it to be equally folid and penetrating, he recommended him to the In- fanta Ifabella y who made him her EmbalTador in E?igland, to C 2 negotiate i 2 Lives of Eminent Painters, ©V. negotiate a Peace with King Charles I. in the Name of her Nephew Philip IV. King of Spain, as well as in her own. He fucceeded in his Embafly by concluding the Treaty ; and during his Stay in England, he painted the Cieling of the Banqruetting- Houfe at Whitehall ; for which, the King paid him to the Value of three thoufand Pounds ; and, in Confideration of his great Merit, conferr'd on him the Honour of Knighthood. He fold the Duke of Buckingham fo many PiSlures, Statues, Medals, and other Antiquities, that the Purchafe amounted to ten thou- fand Pounds. Rubens 's Character was fuch, that the Duke got as much Honour by his Friendfhip, as Rubens did by the Duke's : For if the one was great in Favour, Riches, Power, and Dignities ; the other was as great in Fame, Merit, Know- ledge, and the Glory of being the Prince of his Profeffion. When he went to Spain, to give King Philip an Account of his Negotiation, he had alfo the Honour of Knighthood from him, befides many magnificent Prefents : He drew the Portraits of the Royal Family, and copied fome of Titian s Works for his own Ufe. While Rubens was in Spain, Don yoh?t, Duke of Braganza, (who was afterwards King of Portugal) being a Lover of Paint- ing, and hearing much of Rubens's Excellence in that Art, wrote to fome Lords that were his Friends in the Court of Madrid, to defire they would fo order Matters, that Rubens might vifit him at Villa Vitiofa, the Place of his Refidence. Rubens was well enough pleas'd with the Journey, and fet out with a great Train, which fome of the Duke's Friends giving him Notice of, he was fo furpriz'd, that he fent a Gentleman to meet him by the Way, and tell him, that the Duke his Mafter, being oblig'd to go from Home about an extraordinary Affair, defir'd him not to come any farther ; and that he would accept of fifty Piftoles for the Charge he had been at in coming fo far. Rubens refus'd the Money, faying, He did not want any fuch Supply, Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 13 having brought 2000 along with him, which he intended to fpend in the Duke s Court, in fifteen Days-, the Time he had allotted for his Stay there. Sir Peter returning to Flanders, had the Poft of Secretary of State conferr'd on him ; however, he did not leave off his Pro- feflion : The Extent of his Understanding being fuch as to do the Duties of his Office, and to exercife himfelf in his Art. Thus loaden with Riches, and Honour, he liv'd feveral Years ; till at length the Gout (with which he had been a long Time afflicted) flew up to his Stomach, and put an End to his Life, May 30, 1640, in the 63d Year of his Age. He left two Sons by his fecond Wife ; the eldelt fucceeded him in the Office of Secre- tary of State, and the other was fufficiently provided for, by the Share of his Father's Eftate, which fell to his Lot. He was good natur'd and obliging ; his Genius was full of Fire, his Senfe folid, and fublime : He was univerfally learn'd ; and for the Politenefs of his Manners, and the Perfection of his Knowledge, he was belov'd and efteem'd by Perfons of the beft Rank. He fpoke fix Languages well, and when he wrote to Men of Learning, or made any Obfervations on his Art, he always did it in Latin. Never Painter produced fo many, and fo great Compositions as Rubens : The Palaces of feveral Princes, and the Churches in Flanders, can give fubftantial Proofs of this Aflertion. 'Tis difficult to determine where his finelt Pieces are: There is hard- ly a Place in Europe, but has fome Token of his Ability. How- ever, the Cities of Antwerp and Paris, feem to be the Depo- fitories of his moft valuable Performances. The Criticks in Painting, as well as Painters who examine his Works with Care, will eaiily be convinced, that Rubens not only carried the Art of Painting to a very high Degree, but that he open'd a Way, which will lead thofe that proceed in it to Perfection. He 1 j 4_ Lives 0/ Eminent Painters, &c. ' He had a great many good Difciples, as David Tenters, V an Dyck, y or dan, youfl, S out mans, Diepenbeck, V an Tulden, V an Mo/, V an Houck, Erafmus ^uillinius, and others ; of all whom, Van Dyck diftinguifh'd himfelf raoft, and did his Mafter moft Honour. Rubens at firfl propos'd to himfelf to imitate Michael- An- gelo de Carravaggws Manner of Painting ; but finding it too laborious, he left it, and form'd another more expeditious, and agreeable to his Genius. One Brendel, a Painter, who was alfo a famous Chymift, coming to fee him, afk'd him if he would join with him in fearching after the Philofophers Stone ; telling him, to encou- rage him, he had little more, to do to corrje at it, and they might both of them make their Fortunes by it: To which Rubens anfwer'd, He came too late by above twenty Years, for he had himfelf found out the Philofophers Stone, by the Help of his Pencil and Colours. Abraham yanfe?is, a fkilful Painter of Antwerp (but addided to Lazinefs and Debauchery) complaining of Fortune, and be- ing jealous of Rubens, gave him a Challenge ; propoling to him, to draw each a Picture, as a Trial of Skill, and to leave it to certain Criticks, to determine whofe Performance was beft : Rubens did not think fit to accept the Challenge, anfwering, That he willingly yielded the P refer ettce to him ; that both of them fjould continue to do their befl, which he intended to the ut7noft of his Power, and no doubt the Pub lick would do them both yuflice. 12. Francis Snyders, BORN at Antwerp in the Year 1597, was a Difciple of Henry V an Balen, his Countryman, but ow'd the molt considerable Part of his Improvement to his Studies in Italy. He Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. i £ He painted all Sorts of wild Beajls, and other Animals, Hunt- ings, Fi(h, Fruit, &c. in great Perfection : He was often em- ploy' d by the King of Spain, the Archduke Leopold, and other Princes, being every where much efteem'd for his Works. 13. William Van Nieulant WA S born at Antwerp, in the Year 1584, and inttrudted in the Art of Painting by Savery at Amflerdam : He af- terwards travell'd to Rome, and liv'd three Years with Paul Brill : During his Abode there, he painted the Ruins of Rome^ and other Rarities, with great Exactnefs, and adorn'd them with many little Figures and Landfkips. He alfo perform'd well in Aqua-fortis, and was efteem'd one of the beft Poets of his Age» He left Rome in 1607, and after having fpent fome Time among the Artifts at Antwerp, he return'd to Amjlerdam, where he died in the Year 1635. 14. Sir Anthony Van Dyck WAS born at Antwerp March 22, 1599:. He had his nVft Inftru&ions from Henry VanBalen\ but having feen the more admirable Works of Rubens, he left Van Bale/i to follow that great Matter, whom he judg'd more worthy his Imitation. Rubens, charm'd with his Wit, conceal'd nothing from him that was neceffary to polifh, and make him a. fkilful Artift, being far from envying or feeking to nip his Glory in the Bud, as. moll others would have done : Whilft he liv'd with this Matter, there happen'd a Paflage, which contributed not a little to his Reputation. Rubens having left a Pidure unfiniih'd, and going out contrary to Cuftom, his Difciplesxmade ufe of that Opportunity to fport and play about the Room, when one unfortunately ftriking at his Companion, with a Maul-ftich, chanc'd 1 6 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. chanc'd to*throw down the Picture ; which receiving fome Da- mage, as not being dry, the young Men were not a little alarm'd at it, well knowing how very angry their Mailer would be when he came to find his Work fpoil'd : This made them ufe their beft Endeavours to fet Things right again ; but finding all ineffectual, they had Recourfe (as their laft Remedy) to Van Dyck, who was then at Work in the next Room, entreating him by all Means that he would touch up the Picture anew. He complying with their Requeft, did as they defired him, and left the Piece upon the Eafel. Rubens, coming next Morning to his Work again, firft went at a Diftance to view his Picture (as is ufual with Painters) and having contemplated it a little, iuddenly cried out, He UKd the Piece far better than the Night before J The Occafion of which being afterwards talk'd of, it not a little redounded to the Honour of V an Dyck, and en- creas'd his Efteem with his Mafter. Whilft he liv'd with Ru- bens, he painted a great Number of Faces, and among the Reft that of his Mailer's Wife, which is efteemM one of the beft Pictures in the Low-Countries : He made two more admirable Pieces for his Mafter, one reprefenting the feizing of our Sa- viour in the Garden, and the other the crowning him wi:h Thorns. Having finifh'd thefe Pictures, he for his Improve- ment went to V e?rice, where he attain'd the beautiful colouring of Titian, Paulo V eronefe, &c. and after a few Years fpent in Rome, Genoua, and Sicily, return'd home to Flanders, with a Manner of Painting, fo noble, natural, and eafy, that Titian himfelf was hardly his Superior, and no other Mafter in the World equal to him for Portraits. The Prince of Orange hear- ing of his Fame, fent for him to draw the Pictures of himfelf, his Princefs and Children, which he perform'd to Admiration. No fooner had thefe excellent Pictures appear'd in Publick, but the moft considerable Perfons in Holland were ambitious to be drawn by the Hand of this curious Artift : The Nobility of England Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. i 7 England and France fent likewife on Purpofe for him, that they might participate of the fame Happinefs ; but fo numerous were they, that Pan Dyck not being able, with his utmoft Induf- try, to content them all, drew only thofe he had the moft Re- fpect for ; who gratified him accordingly. Soon after Sir Peter Paul Rubens had left England, V an Dyck arrived here, and was prefented by Sir Kenelm Digby to King Charles I. who not only knighted him, but, as a particular Mark of his Efteem, pre- fented him with a mafTy Gold Chain, and his Picture fet with Diamonds, fettled on him a considerable Pension, and fate very often to him for his Portrait. He was a Perfon low of Stature, but well proportioned ; very handfome, modest, extremely obliging, and a great Encourager of all thofe of his Country who excelled in any Art, moft of whofe Pictures he drew with his own Hand, and which were engraven by the beft Gravers of that Time, as Bolfwaert, V ofler- man, Pontius, Sec. and fome were etched by himfelf. He mar- ried one of the faireft and nobleft Ladies of the Engli/h Court ; whofe Father, the Lord Ruthen, Earl of Gowry, being accufed of a Confpiracy againft King Ja7nes I. his Eftate was confifcated, fo that he had no great Portion with his Wife, belides her Beau- ty and Quality. He always went magnificently dreffed, had a numerous and gallant Equipage, and kept fo noble a Table in his Apartment, that few Princes were more visited, or better ferved. Towards the latter End of his Life, growing weary of Face^ painting, and being defirous to immortalize his Name by fome more glorious Undertaking, he went for Paris, in Hopes of be- ing employed in the great Gallery of the Louvre ; but not suc- ceeding there, he returned hither, and by his Friend Sir Kenelm Digby, propofed to the King to make Cartoons for the Banquet- ting-Houfe at Whitehall ; the Subject of which was to have been the Inst itution of the Order of the Garter, the Proceffion of the D Knights 1 8 Lives of Eminent Painters, &g Knights in their Habits, and the Ceremony of their Inftalment, with St. Georges Feaft : But his Demand of 80,000 Pounds be- ing judged unreafonable, whilft the King was treating with him for a lefs Sum, the Gout, and other Diftempers, put an End ta his Life, in the Year 1641 ; being the forty-fecond Year of his Age ; and was buried in St. Paufs Cathedral. 'Tis probable he fhortened his Days, by wafting his Spirits with too much Ap- plication to his Bufinefs, without which he could not have per- formed the vaft Number of Pictures that came out of his Hands.. Hanneman and Kemy were his beft Difciples* 15. Gerard Segers WA S born at Antwerp in the Year 1591, and bred up under Abraham Janfens, 2. Painter of Note in that City : At the Requeft of feveral Lovers of the Art, he travelled to Rome, where, with great iDiligence and Pains, he copied fome of the Works of the moft famous Italian Painters, which were efteemed not much inferior to the Originals. After having ftudied the Principles of his Art fome Time, he-gave himfelf up intirely to Manfred? s Manner ; and at laft excelled him in the Force and Union of his Colouring. He was fo ravifhed with the wonderful Paintings he there beheld, that he could not without great Difficulty be got thence; till Cardinal Zapata, the King of Spain's Embajfador at Rome, with great Importunity prevailed upon him to accompany him to Madrid, where he prefented him to the King, who conferred upon him feveral Honours, as a Mark of his Efteem. Segers, at his Return to Antwerp, finding that Rubens % and V an DycKs Manners were generally approved of, he was obliged to change his own, or his Pictures would have lain upon his Hands : His good Senfe, and the Knowledge he had of his Art, made the Change eafy to him, and he fucceeded in his new Stile, as Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 19 as may be feen by his Works in moft of the Churches at Antwerp. He made for the Duke of Newburgh a Pi&ure of the BlefTed Vir- gin, which pleafed him fo extremely, that he rewarded him with a Gold Chain and a Medal, over and above the full Price of his Work. He built himfelf a {lately Houfe at Antwerp, and adorned it with] a great Collection of curious Paintings, gathered from all Parts, with great Cofl: and Induftry, and there peace- ably ended his Days in the Year 1 65 1, about fixty Years of Age, leaving behind him a Son of his own Profeflion. 16. Adrian Van Utretcht WAS born at Antwerp, January 12, 1599. His chief Excellency was in painting Fruit-Pieces, Birds, and Beafts, either as alive or dead ; his Works are in the Palaces of the Emperor, the King of Spain, and other Princes, and like- wife in Holland : He had been in France, Provence, Italy, and Germany, but Antwerp was the chief Place of his Refidence. 17. Adam Willaerts, BORN at Antwerp, in the Year 1577, was a neat Painter of Sea-Pieces, Ports, Havens, Rivers, Ships, Boats, Barks, and little Figures in them. 18. John William Bauur, or Baurn, A Native of Strasburg, was a Difciple of Frederic Brendel, and had a great Genius; but the Force of his Imagination hindered his ftudying the Antique, and beautiful Nature, and prevented his throwing off the barbarous Gout of his Country. In the Year 1 637, the Duke of Brajffignano fent for him to Rome, and entertained him in his Service : But his Studies were wholly D 2 employed 20 Lives of Eminent Painters, ©V. employed about ArchiteSiure, and Landskip. He took no Care to form a grand Gufto of Defigning, or learn how to exprefs the Waked, which he performed but indifferently ; but in painting fmall Figures in Diflemper on V ellum : His Pencil was light, his general Expreffions and Compositions beautiful even to Subli- mity. He ftudied his Trees at la Vigne Madame ; and the Pa- laces in and about Rome, were his Models for ArchiteSiure. From Rome he went to V znice, and afterwards into Germany, where he ferved the Emperor Ferdinand. He etch'd himfelf Ovid's Metamorphofes from his own Dellgns, which make a Vo- lume by themfelves : Befides which, a great Number of Subjects taken out of the holy Scriptures, and other Hiftories, were en- graved by Melchior Kujfel, and make another Volume of Prints : By thefe two Books may be formed a Judgment of the Extent of Bauurs Genius. He died at V ienna in a fhort Time after he was married, in the Year 1 640. He wrote his Name Guil. Baurn, and fometimes Jo. Guih Baurn. 19. Nicholas Knupfer WA S bred under Rma7^uel Nyfen at Leipfick. About the Year 1603, he lived at Magdeburg ; and afterwards, in 1630, went to Utrecht, and refided with the famous Abra- ham Blomaert, where he made feveral admirable Hiftory Pieces for the King of Denmark, and other Princes and Perfons of Quality. 20. John Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 21 20. John Bylert WA S born at Utrecht, of mean Parentage, being but the Son of a Glazier ; yet advanced his own Fortune by his great Merit and Induftry. His Defigns are allowed to be good \ his Figures were moderately large, and very foft. 21. John Van Balen WA S a good Painter both in Great and Small. After re- ceiving his firft Inftrudion from his Father Henry Van Balen, he was fome Time in Italy ; but Antwerp was the chief Place of his Refidence, where he was born in the Year 161 1. 22. Rowland Savery, A Native of Flanders, was the Son of an ordinary Painter : His firjfh Exercife in his Art was to imitate all Sorts of A- nimals after Nature ; and he became lb fkilful in his ProfefHon, that the Emperor Rodolphus II. who had a good Tafte, took him into his Service, andfent him to Friuli, to ftudy Landfkips on the Mountains, in which he fucceeded : His Defigns are ge- nerally drawn with a Pen, and warned over with different Co- lours, as near as he could to Nature, in the Object he defigned. He collected all his Drawings into a Book, which he carefully confulted : This Book is now in the Emperor's Collection. Giles Sadeler, and Ifaac his Difciple, engraved feveral of his Land- fkips ; the fmeft. of them all is the Piece in which St. Jerom is reprefented. He was much efteemed by the Lovers of the Art, and died at Utrecht in a good old Age. 23. Henry 22 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c, 23. Henry Vander Borcht, Senior, OF Brujfels, was born in the Year 1583, from whence he was removed to Germany on Account of the Troubles in his own Country, in 1586. After having learned the Rudiments of his Art of Giles V alckenborgh, he travelled into Italy ', and at his Return lived at Franckendael, till the Year 1627, when he returned to Francfort. He was a great Lover of antique Curiofi- ties, and other Rarities : The Earl of Arundel had him in great Efteem for his valuable Collection of antient Pieces, and Medals, as.alfo for his Painting. 24. Jacob Backer, A Native of Haerlinge, in the Year 1608, was an excellent Painter in Large, being a good Defigner and Colourift, and underftood the Naked perfectly well ; he had alfo a happy Talent in painting Portraits, and Amjlerdam was the Place of Jiis Residence. 25. Deodate Del Mont LIVED fome Time with Rubens, and travelled with him to Italy, and other Parts, to increafe his Experience. When Rubens parted from him, he gave him a Teftimonial of his Abilities, by a publick Inftrument. He was for feveral Years Painter and Architect-General to the Duke of Newburgh ; he afterwards ferved the Archduke Albert, and the Infanta Isa- bella, in the fame Quality, till his Death, which happened in the Year 1643. 26. D A- Lives of Eminent Painters, &e. 23 26. David Teniers, Senior, BO R N at Antwerp, in the Year 1582, was flrft a Difciple of Ruhens in Flanders, and afterwards of Adam Eljhei- mer at Rome ; by which Means, when he returned to Antwerp^ he made a Mixture of Rubens s and Eljheimers Manners : He excelled in Painting both great and fmall Figures, as alfo in Land/kips ; and died in the Year 1 649. 27. Adrian Van Nieulant, A Native of Antwerp, was flrft inftructed by Peter Ifaac y and afterwards by Francis Baden at Amfierdam, in 1607^ where he fpent moll of his Life. He was a good Painter in fmall Figures and Landfkips ; there are feveral fine Pieces extant of his doing, containing the Hiftories of the Old Teftament* He died in the 59th Year of his Age. 1 28. Fr A NX IS of P AD U A, SO named from the Place of his Nativity, was an admirable Painter of great Figures, very copious in his Inventions, and particularly excellent in Portraits, as appears by the Pictures of the Earl of Arundel, and his Countefs, drawn by him. He lived^ fometimes at Ro?ne\ but Padua, his native Place, was his chief Refidence. W 29. Peter Franchoys AS a Painter of good Efteem, born at Malines, and died the eleventh Day of Auguft, 1 6 54. 30. John 24- Lives of Eminent Painters, &V 30. John Both, and Henry his Brother, OF Utrecht^ were both Blomaerts Difciples, and both of them very ftudious and induftrious in their Profeflion : They went to Rome, where Henry applied himfelf to Landfkips, imitating the Manner of Claude de Lorain, and jfohn ftudied the drawing of Figures and Animals, in Imitation of Bamboccio\ Manner : Both of them fucceeding in their feveral Kinds, they agreed to paint Pictures together ; yohn drew the Figures and the Animals, and Henry the Landfkips, reconciling their Manners fo well, that the Piece appeared to be but one Man's Doing : By this Means they finifhed their Pi&ures with fo much Eafe, and fold them fo faft, that they refolved to continue their joint La- bours ; till Henry going Home one Night, fell into a Canal at V enice, and was drowned : After which, yohn returned to U- trecht, where he worked and lived with Reputation. The fudden Death of Henry Both was looked on as a Piece of divine Vengeance, for a Crime he was guilty of while he lived at Rome. He, with Peter V an Laer, (commonly called Bam- hoccio ) and three other Dutchmen of their Acquaintance, having been found feveral Times eating Flefh on the Banks of the Tyber, during the Lent Seafon ; a Prieft, who had often admonifhed them for fo doing, furprifed them at it once more, and feeing that fair Means would not do, threatened to put them into the Inquijition : Both the Prieft and the Dutchmen being very much exafperated, they threw him into the River ; and it was obferved, that all thefe five Hollanders died by Water. 31. David Beck, A Native of Delft, in Holland, was both Painter and of the Bed-chamber to the Queen of Sweden, by whofe Direc- tions he drew the Pictures of the moft illuftrious Perfons in Chriftendom. 32. Ge- Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 25 32. Gerard Honthorst, BO R N at Utrecht^ in the Year 1592, was firft a Difciple of Abraham Bloemaert, and afterwards went to Rome, where having ftudied Defegning, he exercifed himfelf with fo much Application and Succefsin Drawing Night-Pieces, that none ever equalled him: His Capacity being known to feveral Cardinals^ he was employ 'd by them to paint the Rarities that Italy at that Time afforded : And at his Return to Utrecht he drew feveral Hiftory-Pieces, in which he likewife excell'd. He was a Man of fuch Sobriety, and of fo much Honour, that mod of the young Men of Quality of Antwerp, were fent to him to learn to defign ; he alfo taught the §}ueen of Bohemias Children : The Prince Palatine, and the four Princejfes were his Difciples ; among whom, her Highnefs the Princefs Sophia, and the Abbefs of Maubuijfon diftinguifh'd themfelves by their Skill in Painting. Charles the Firft, King of England, invited Honthorfl to come to London, where he did feveral grand Performances for his Ma- jefty. When he return'd to Holland, he painted the Prince of Oranges Houfes of Pleafure ; in which, he drew Abundance of Poetical Subjects, as well in Frefco, as in Oil ; particularly in the Palace call'd la Maifon du Bois, (the Boarded-Houfe) half a League from the Hague. 33. Thomas Willeborts Bossaert WA S born at Berghen op Zoom in Braba?tt, in the Year 1 6 1 3, and (according to the Examples of the great Painters that ftourifh'd at that Time) began to draw when very young in the Books that were intended for other Studies : Preferring his Pencil before all Things, he drew his own Picture, by the Re- femblance in a Looking-glafs, fo like, that thofe that faw it E were 2.6 Lives of Eminent Painters, &V. were aftonifti'd. This he did before he had the leaft Inftruc- tion from any one, and at the Age only of twelve Years. His Parents perceiving this, fent him to a Matter that he might follow his own Inclination; but becaufe his firft Matter was but an indifferent Painter, and no Ways capable of fatisfying his earneft Dettre of Learning, he left him, and engag'd himfelf with Gerard Segers, under whofe better Inftruction, Art per- fected what Nature began ; proving a moft accomplifh'd Artift* after four Years Practice. Antwerp being at that Time the Seat of Arts, and where was a Conflux of the moft eminent Painters, he thought it a Place moft worthy of his Refidence, and the litteft for him to improve in. There he made fuch a Number of magnificent Pieces, as gave new Splendor to the ancient Beauty of that wealthy City. Henry Frederick, Prince of Orange^ in the Year 1642, and his Son Prince William, employ'd him in their Service for feveral Years ; in which Time, he made thofe excellent Pieces, which were to be feen at the faid Prince's Palace at the Hague, and other Parts of Holland: Having painted moft Perfons of Quality that were then living. That great Piece of his, at the Hague, is moft admirable, where he reprefents Mars the God of War on one Side, ftirr'd up and provok'd by the Furies : And on the other Hand, Peace and Concord, ftriving gently to appeafe and reftrain him. The Martyrdom of St. George in the great Church is alfo an excel- lent Piece. He died in the Flower of his Age, and his Lofs was much lamented by all that were acquainted either with his Per- fon or Abilities. 34. Bon a venture Peters, A Native of Antwerp, in the Year 1614, had an excellent Faculty in Sea* Pieces, fometimes reprefenting a calm Sea, full of Ships and Galleys riding, with Pendants and Streamers difplay'd Lives of Eminent Painters, 27 di/play'd as it were in Triumph : Sometimes an outrageous Storm, in which the furious Winds, and foaming Billows, feem to contend with each other for Victory, while fome fhatter'd Bark or linking Ship is the Sacrifice that mull appeafe their Wrath. His Sea-Fights are alfo very natural, in which he ob- ferved, as to his Deflgn, an exact Order and Decorum, amidft a feeming Confulion of Fire, Smoke, Blood, Wrecks, and Splin- ters of Ships, &c. He alfo painted Profpe&s of Towns, Caftles, &c, exceedingly well. 35. Francis Wouters WA S born at Lyere, in the Year 1614, and bred up in the School of Rubens. He was a good Fainter of Figures in Small, chiefly Naked ; as alfo of Landslips. His Merits promoted him to be principal Painter to Ferdinand II. Emperor of Germany : With whofe Embaflador he travell'd into England ; and upon the Death of his Imperial Mafter, was made Gentle- man of the Bed-chamber, and chief Painter to King Charles II. then Prince of Wales. He liv'd a confiderable Time at London in great Efteem ; and at length retiring to Antwerp, died there. 36. Daniel Segers W r A S a Native of Antwerp, Brother to Gerard Segers, and a Difciple of John Brugel. He had not his Equal, either among the Ancients or Moderns for painting Flowers, which appear as lively and gay as Nature herfelf produces them in the Spring, when Flora and Pomona ennamel the Fields and Gar- dens; his Flowers excelling thofe of Nature, in this, that his Rofes wither not, but always keep their blufhing Beauty, his Violets never lofe their Purple, nor his Lillies their fhowy Whitenefs, but have receiv'd a Kind of Immortality from his E 2 Hand. i ( 28 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. Hand. Having a Defire to enter himfelf into the Society of the Jefuzts, he was admitted into their Convent at Antwerp as a Lay- Brother : His Superiors deiiring to make Advantage of his Indu- ftry,fet him to paint thofe Hiftories of their Society, which are to be feen over the Chairs of Confellion in their Church at Antwerp, At Rome he drew the moft remarkable Rarities that he faw either in the Palaces or Gardens there. His Works are no where to be found but in Princes Cabinets, particularly in thofe of the Emperor, and the Archduke Leopold, or elfe among the Jefuits. Henry Frederick, Prince of Orange, was fo defirous to have fomething of his Hand, that he fent his Painter Willeborts on Purpofe to Antwerp to procure fome. Segers, by Permiflion of his Supe- riors, made him a Prefent of an Oval Bafon fill'd with Flowers, upon which he painted here and there feveral Butterflies, and other little Infects, fo curioufly as to add much Beauty to the Picture : The Prince was fo pleas'd with it, that he fent the Society ten mafly Pieces of fine Gold, in Form of Oranges richly enamell'd, and a Painter's Pallet, with feveral Handles for Pencils, all of fine Gold, to the Painter himfelf. The Prin- cefs of Orange had alfo prefented her the Picture of an Oval Bafon full of Flowers, mingled with Branches of the Orange-tree laden with Oranges, with which me was fo taken, that fhe fent the Fathers a Crofs of Gold ennamell'd, of above a Pound Weight. 37. Peter Snayers, BO R N at Antwerp in the Year 1593, was a good Painter of Landfkips and Battles, both in Great and Small. He re- futed chiefly at Bruffels, being Painter to the Archduke Albert, and the Infanta Ifabella his Wife : He was likewife a Domeftick of his Highnefs the Prince, Cardinal Infant of Spain, and ferv'd feveral other Princes. 38. Jav Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 29 38. James Van Es WA S an excellent Painter of Fruit-Pieces, Fifh, Birds, and Flowers, all which he perform'd extremely well. He liv'd for the moft Part at Antwerp, the Place of his Nativity. 39. Adrian De Bie, A Native of Lyere, in the Year 1594, was a Painter of good Efteem for great Figures, and other Defigns, and Father of the original Author of this Book, who liv'd a long Time in Italy, 40. Adrian Van Venne, BORN at Delft in the Year 1599, had his firft InftrutTiions at Leyden, under Simon V alck, and Jerom V an Diefi : Leaving his Mafter, he exercis'd himfelf in his own Study, where he perform'd a great Number of excellent Pieces for the King of Denmark, his Highnefs the Prince of Orange, and divers other Princes, and Men of the greateft Rank; but his beft Works are in Black and White. He was alfo a good Poet, as appears by the Books he wrote, and the Hague was his chief Reiidence. 41. James Jordaens, COmmonly call'd Jordaens of Antwerp, was born in that City, May 19, 1594, and learn'd the Principles of his Art of Adam Van Oort. He alfo ftudied the Works of the other famous Painters of that City, and made fuch nice Obfervations on Nature, that the Manner he form'd to himfelf, acquired him 30 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. him the Reputation of being one of the greateft Matters In the Low-Countries. He wanted only to have been at Rome, as he fhew'd himfelf by his Efteem of the Italian Painters, and by the Pains he took to copy Titian, Paolo V eronefe, the Bajfans, and Caravaggios Works, wherever he met with them. He was hinder'd from travelling thither by an early Marriage, which he contra&ed with his Mafter Adam V a?i Oorts Daughter. His Talent was for large Pictures ; his Manner ftrong, fweet, and faithful. 'Tis faid that Rubens, whofe beft Principles he had made himfelf entirely Mafter of, and for whom he work'd, fearing he would excel him in Colouring, employ 'd him a long Time to make large Cartoons for Tapefiries, in Diftemper, after Sketches in Colours of Rubens 's own doing. Thefe Tapeftries were for the King of Spain, and jfordaens, by a contrary Ha- bitude, weaken'd his Knowledge in the Principles of Colour- ing, which before was ftrong, and reprefented the Truth of Nature in a wonderful Degree. He perform'd many excellent Pieces in Antwerp, and other Cities of Flanders, as alfo for the Kings of Denmark and Sweden, as well as other Princes, and great Men. He was indefatigable in his Labours, and all his Re- creation was the Company of his Friends, whom he viflted in the Evening ; his pleafant Humour being a great Relief to the Fatigues of his Profeftion. He died at the Age of eighty-four, in the Year 1678. 42. Gaspar De Crayer, T1TTAS born at Antwerp, in the Year 1585, and receiv'd V \ his firft Inftru&ions from Raphael Coxcii : He liv'd chiefly at Brujfels, and at length furpafs'd his Mafter in the Art of Painting, being reckon'd one of the beft Painters of his Time. The moft considerable Abbeys in the Low Countries were adorn'd with his Works: In that of Vicoigne is a Piece fifteen Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 3 1 fifteen Feet high, extremely well done (encompafs'd by a Border of Marble) reprefenting the Paflion. In that of St. Dennis near Mons, is another, exhibiting the Manner of Beheading that Saint: And at Oft end, St. Peter s Fifhing; befides a great Number of excel- lent Pieces at Bruffels. His Picture of Prince Ferdinand, as big as the Life, is efteem'd the beft of his Performances, which was fent by that Prince, to his Brother the King of Spain : Belides the Applaufe that Crayer receiv'd for this curious Piece, he was rewarded with a Gold Chain and a Medal, with a Yearly Sa- lary during his Life. The Archduke Leopold being made Go- vernor of the Low-Countries, employ 'd him in divers Deflgns, about the Year 1648, which he performed to his entire Satis- faction, 43. Sir Balthazar Gerbier, A Native of Antwerp, in the Year 1 5 9 2, liv'd a long Time in Italy, and was afterwards Painter to the Duke of Buckingham", who, perceiving he was a Man of very good Senfe, as well as a good Painter, recommended him fo zealoufly to King Charles I. that he invited him to his Court, knighted him, made him Mafler of the Ceremonies in England ; and at length, in 1630, fent him to Bruffels, where he a long Time reiided in Quality of Agent for the King of Great-Britain. 44. Leonard Bramer, BORN at Delft, in the Year 1596, liv'd fome Time in Italy, in the Court of the Prince of Farnefe, where he perform'd feveral Pieces both in Great and Small, for him and Cardinal Schalie. From Italy he retum'd to Delft, and made feveral Pieces at Ryfwick for his Highnefs Frederick Henry, then Prince of Orange, Count Maurice of Naffau, and other Princes. 45. Cor- 32 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 45. Cornelius Poulen bourgh, A Native of Utrecht, about the Year 1590, was a Difciple of Abraham Blomaert, and afterwards, for a long Time, a Student at Rome and Florence ; ftudying the Works of Ra- phael, and other eminent Mafters, for Figures, and in his Land- fkips copying the Manner of Adam Eljheimer : At laft having ftudied Nature, he form'd a particular Stile, and following his Genius, he altogether pra&is'd fmall Figures, naked Boys, Land- skips, Ruins, &c. which he exprefs'd with a Pencil very agree- ably, as to the colouring Part ; but generally attended with a little StifTnefs, the (almoft infeparable) Companion of much La- bour and Neatnefs. When he returned to Holland, he work'd very afliduoufly to make himfelf known. Charles I. King of England, having feen fome of his Pieces, invited him to his Court, and at his Coming to England, in the Year 1637, low'd him an annual Penfion : He afterwards return'd to Utrecht, where he had fo much Bufinefs, that he could not go through with it. His Pi&ures being portable, were fent for from all Parts ; and Rubens liked his Manner fo well, that he deiired lome of his Pieces, which Sandrart undertook to fend him. He died at the Age of feventy-feven, in 1660. His Works are to this Day efteemed all over Europe. 46. Erasmus Quellinius, OF Antwerp, was born November the 19th, in the Year 1607. He at firft profefs'd himfelf a Philofopher ; but he loved Painting fo much, that he was forced to give Way to his Inclination, and change his Profeffion. He learned his Art of Rubens, and became a very good Painter. He did feveral grand Performances in Antwerp, and the Places thereabouts, for Churches Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 33 Churches and Palaces ; and tho' he aimed at nothing more than the Pleafure he took in the Exercife of Painting, yet when he died, he left behind him a general Efteem of his Skill, and a wonderful Chara&er of Merit in his Art ; being a very good Philofopher, an excellent Painter both in Great and Small, and well (killed in Architetlure, and Perfpe&he. 47. John (Dossiers WAS born at Antwerp in the Year 1603, and received his flrft Inftructions under Cornelius de Vos, became at length an excellent Painter, as is evident by the Pieces he made for feveral Churches, the King of Spain, the Prince Cardinal, the Archduke Leopold Willia7n, and divers other Princes and great Men of that Time. 48. David Ballii REceived his Birth at Leyden, where he liv'd a confidera- ble Time. He was a very good Painter of Portraits, and defigned well with a Pen. 49. Herman Saftleven, BORN at Rotterdam, in the Year 1609, was a very good Landskip- Painter : At firft he painted Boors, both Men and TV omen, Farm-houfes, &c. but his chief Delight was afterwards wholly in Landslips. His ufual Refidence was at Utrecht. John 34- Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 50. John Van Bronchorst WAS born at Utrecht L , in the Year 1603, and at firnr learned of fome Painters upon Glafs ; but they being but forry Artifts, he received no great Benefit by their Instruc- tion : However, by his great Diligence and Obfervation, he became a fkilful Matter, and good Defigner, as his Works manifeft. 51. Abraham Van Diepenbeke, A Native of Boijleduc, furpafs'd all that were his Contem- poraries in painting upon Glafs (an Art which in thefe latter Ages has much declined : ) He afterwards entered the School of Rubens, and became one of his beft Difciples. His Inventio?t was eafy and ingenious : The Prints that were graved after his Works are Proofs of it ; and among others, thofe he made for a Book, entitled, The Temple of the Mufes, which. Performance is alone fufficient to ferve for an Encomium on this Painter. Antwerp was the chief Place of his Refidence. 52. Peter Danckerse De Ry, BO R N at Amfierdam in the Year 1605, was principal. P ortrait-P ainter to his Majefty Uladijlaus (of that Name the fourth) King of Poland and Sweden. 53. Daniel Van Heil WAS born at Bruffels in the Year 1604, a good Painter of Landskips, Cities, and Houfes on Fire, &c. being well known and efteemed by the Criticks in Painting. 54. James Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 3^ 54. James D'Arthois, BORN at Bruffels in the Year 1613, where he fpent moft Part of his Life. He painted Landslips both in Great and Small, in fuch a Manner, that they were efteemed the moft Pleafant of that Kind in Flanders. 55. Peter Van Lint WAS a good Painter in Portraits, both in Great and Small ; in Hiftory Sacred and Profane ; working both in Oil and Diftemper. He was employed for feven Years in the Service of Cardinal Gevaftus, Bifliop of Oftie, and other Perfbns of Diftinction ; particularly in the Chapel of Santa Croce, in the Church of Madona del Popolo at Rome : He fent fome of his Pictures as a Prefent to the King of Denmark. He was born in the Year 1609, commenced his Studies in 1619, and refided chiefly at Antwerp, the Place of his Nativity. 56. Nicholas De Helt Stocade, BO R N at Nimeguen in the Year 1 6 1 4, lived fome Time at Rome, and afterwards at V mice ; thence he travelled into Fra?tce, where he gained fuch Efteem by his Works, that he was received into the Service of his Moft Chriftian Majefty. 57. GoNZALO CoQ^UES, A Native of Antwerp in the Year 1 6 1 8, was brought up by David Ryckaert the Elder, his Father-in-Law ; under whom he improved fo much, that King Charles the Firft of England, the Duke of Brandenburgh, and the Prince of Orange, F 2 took 3 6 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. took particular Notice of him, and employed him. His Defigns are excellent, and his Pictures in Small admirable. 58. David Teniers, Junior, TTCT AS born in the Year 1610, and brought up by his V ^ Father, proving a mod excellent Painter in fmall Fi- gures^ and Landslips. He made a great Number of remark- able Pieces for the King of Spam, and other Kings ; as like- wife for the Archduke Leopold William, the Bifhop of Gaunt, IVilliam Prince of Orange, and other Princes, Great Men, and Lovers of the Art. That Picture of his is much commended which he made for the Archduke Leopold, the Subject of which is the rich Mifer in the Gofpel, whom he reprefents carefully furveying his Bags of Gold, and turning over his Deeds and Writings ; his Wife as carefully fitting by him, and fcrupuloufly weighing each Piece of Gold that feems fufpicious : In it is to be feen the Effects of fordid Covetoufnefs, viz. An anxious Care of preferving, without any chearful Enjoyment of their great Abundance, whilfl Death unfeen to both {lands behind, hold- ing forth an Hour-glafs, whofe Sand is almoft quite run out. He defigned well ; his Manner was firm, and his Pencil light : As for copying other Mens Works, he was a perfect Proteus : He transformed himfelf into as many Matters as he undertook to copy, all whom he counterfeited fo exactly, that to this Day it is hard to diftinguifh the Copy from the Original, in all his Pieces of that Kind. The Archduke Leopold made him Di- rector of his Paintings, and by his Means the Pictures in his Gallery were engraved. 59. Robert Lives of Eminent Painters, 37 59. Robert Van Hoeck, BORN at Antwerp^ was by the King of Spain made Comptroller of the Fortifications in the Low-Countries. He was an extraordinary Artift in fmall Figures ; his Pictures being in great Efteem with the Lovers of the Art, and other eminent Perfons. 60. John Baptist Van Heil, BRother of Daniel and Leo Van Heil, and a Native oF Bruffels, in the Year 1609, was a good Painter of Pieces of Devotion, Poetical Ficlions, and Hi/lories^ and likewife Portraits. 61. John Philip Van Thielen, LORD of Couwenbach, was born at Malines in the Year 1 61 8, being a Difciple of Daniel Segers the Jefuit ; he afterwards became a very good Flower-Painter, and his Works were held in great Efteem. 62. Peter Meerte, A Painter of good Reputation at Brujfels, as his Pieces (to be feen in the Churches and Halls belonging to the feveral Companies in that City) do fufficiently teftify. 63. John 38 Lives of Eminent Painters, ffc 63, John Peters WAS born at Antwerp, in the Year 1624, where he con- tinued moft Part of his Life : He pra&ifed the Manner ■of his Brother Bonaventure Peters, being famous for Sea-Pieces, Calms, Tempejls, and Sea-Fights ; alio Towns, Caftles, &c. His Pictures were greatly efteemed by the Lovers of the Art, and other great Men. 64. John Van den Hecke WA S a Painter of Note for Great and Small Figures, Flowers, Fruit, A7timals, and other Defigns, which were well efteemed : After he had fpent fome Time in Italy, in the Service of the Duke of Bracciano, he returned to Ant- werpj and there ended his Days. 65. Luke Franchoys, Native of Malines, was a fkilful Painter, and renowned for great Defigns, and likewife Portraits. 66. Charles Van Savoyen WAS born at Antwerp, but lived for the moft Part in Holland : He was an extraordinary Artifi in Small, ef- pecially naked Figures, which were held in great Efteem. This Head is of his own Etching. 67. Peter Lives of Eminent Painters, &c, 39 67. Peter Van Bredael, A Native of Antwerp, in the Year 1630, had a very agree- able Manner of Painting : He lived fome Time in Spain* and other Provinces, 68. PIenry Vander Borcht, Junior*, WA S born at Franckendael, in the Palatinate, from whence (on Account of the Wars) he removed to Franckfort, in- the Year 1636. The Earl of Arundel pafling that Way in his Embafly to the Emperor, took him with him to Vienna, and employed him in Italy, with Mr. Peti, in collecting what Ra- rities could be there procured ; and afterwards brought him to England, where he continued in the faid Earl's Service till his Death ; after whofe Deceafe he was preferred to the Service of King Charles II. then Prince of Wales. After having lived a confiderable Time at London, in great Efteem, he went to Antwerp, where he died. His Father (of the fame Name) was likewife very much valued by the Earl of Arwidel, for his fine- Collection of Rarities, and Antique Curiojities. 69. John Meyssens WAS born at Bruffels, May 17, 161 2, but his ufual Refi- dence was at Antwerp ; where, befides many Things which he painted to the Life with lingular Judgment, he traded much in making and felling Pr'mts, in the Knowledge whereof he was very fldlful ; and to all which (as you fee in many Plates of this Book) he ufually put his Name in this Manner, Jo. Meffens excudit. It may be obferved likewife, that many of the Heads in this Collection were painted by him. 70. George 4&> Lives of Eminent Painters, &c, 70. George Van Son, / A N excellent Painter of Fruit and Flowers at Antwerp, J^jL where he was born in the Year 1622. 71. John Baptist Van Devnum, BORN at Antwerp^ in the Year 1620, was excellent at painting Portraits in Small, Landkips, and other Figures in Miniature. He v/as honoured by the City of A?itwerp, with the Command of a Company of their Traiized Bands, in the Quality of Captain. 72. John Van Kessel, A Native of Antwerp, in the Year 1626, was a curious Painter of Flowers, InfeSi-s, &c. and his Pictures were much efheemed. 73. Henry Berckmans, BO R N at Clunder near Willemftadt, was the Difciple of Wouverman, the famous Battle- Painter at Flaerlem, and of Thomas TVilleborts y and James Jordaens at A?itwerp. His Pieces are much valued, efpecially his Faces, done from the Life. He lived at Middleburgh in Zealand. 74. Simon Vouet WAS born at Paris, Jan. 8. 1582. He was the Son and Difciple of Laurence V met, an ordinary Painter : But by his Studies elfewhere, he acquired fuch Skill in his Art, that at s Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 41 at twenty Years old, Monfieur de Sancy, who was going Em- baffador to Conftantinople, took him in his Retinue, to draw the Grand Seigniors Picture, and the moft considerable Places about Conftantinople: But Vouet, at his Arrival, finding the Difficulty of performing his Defign, by Reafon of the Turkifb Laws, was forced to take a quite different Method from the ufual Practice, and to imprint in his Mind, by the Force of Imagination, the Sultans Vifage, as he obferved it in his at- tending the Embaflador at his Audience, and at other Times ; which he did with fo much Accuracy, that his Draught of it afterwards, when retired to his Chamber, according to thofe Ideas he had before conceived, appeared to refemble the Original as exactly to the Life, as if the Sultan had fat on Purpofe for it. This was looked upon to be fo extraordinary an Effect of Ingenuity, that he was richly rewarded for it : And it was fo generally efteemed and applauded by Men of Judgment, that divers Copies were made of it by feveral eminent Hands. Llaving drawn fome other Portraits at Conftantinople* he took Shipping for Venice, and afterwards went to Rome, where he Itaid fourteen Years ; in which Time he made fo confiderable a Progrefs in his Art, that befides the Favours which he received from Pope Urban VIII. and the Cardinal his Nephew, he was chofen Prince of the Roman Academy of St. Luke. During his Abode at Rome, he married Virginia V ezzo V dlatrano, a Lady of extraordinary Beauty, and flulful in Painting, as appears by many excellent Prints, that were done after her Deftgns. Lewis XIII. King of France (who allowed him a Penlion during his Abode at Rome) fent for him in the Year 1627, to work in his Royal Palaces, and above all at Luxemburgh : So that by Com- mand of his natural Prince, he was obliged to leave Rome, and its Glories, and return to France ; having left behind him fe- veral Monuments of his Pencil, which were held in equal Re- putation with fome of the be ft in Italy, and placed as a G Tefti- 42 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. Teftimony thereof, in the Church of St. Peter at Rome ; where nothing that is common, is fufFered to come. He no fooner arrived in France, but the King made him his principal Painter : He practifed both in Portraits and Hi [lories, and furnimed fome of the Apartments of the Louvre, the Palaces of Luxem- burg/), and St. Germain 's, the Galleries and Chapel of Cardinal Richlieu ; and alfo his Caftle of Ruell, the Queens Baths, and the Marefchal d'Effiats fine Houfe at Chilly, He drew Portraits in Crayojis and Pajlels with fuch Facility, that the King admired and delighted to fee him work : He alio learned of him to defign, in which his Majejly made a won- derful Progrefs in a little Time ; drawing feveral Portraits, very much refembling fome of the mofl coniiderable Perfons at Court ; which he bellowed among, his Favourites, after he had taken the Pleafure of doing them. Charles I. King of England, had fo great a Regard for him, that he endeavoured by many Sollicitations to get him into his Service ; but could not prevail : Yet V ouet fent him fome of his Pieces, as an Acknowledgment of his Refpecl and Veneration for fo great a Prince. While he was at Rome, he imitated Caravaggio and Valen- tino % Manner ; but when he came to Paris, he was fo fully employed, that he formed a Manner to himfelf, more expedi- tious by great Shadows and general Tints ; which he made ufe of, and fucceeded in the better, becaufe his Pencil was brifk, lively, and light. It would be a Matter of wonder to think what a prodigious Number of Pictures he drew, if we did not know that he had a great many Difciples, whom he bred up in his Manner ; who were flcilful Painters, and executed his De- figns with Eafe, tho' they were not finimed fo well as they mould have been. France is indebted to him for deflroying the inllpid and bar- barous Manner that then reigned, and for introducing a Gout ; in Livhs of Eminent Painters, &c. 43 in which he was aflifled by Blanchart. The Novelty of V ouet\ Manner, and the kind Reception he gave every Body that came to him, made the French Painters, his Contemporaries, fall into it, and brought him Difciples from all Parts ; as well thofe w ho profened the other Arts depending on Defign, as thofe who ftudied the Art of Painting only. Moil of the Painters, who have fince been any ways famous in their Profeffion, were bred up by him ; as Le Brun, Perrier, Peter Mignard, Chaperon y Perfon, Le Sueur, Corneille, Dorigny, 7*artebat, Belli, du Fref- noy, and feveral others, whom he employed in making the Or- naments of his Pieces, and Dejigns for Tapejlries ; as "Jufie cTEg- mont, V andrijfe, Scalberg, Fatel, Bellin, V an Boucle, Belle- Ange y Cottelle, &c. without reckoning a great Number of young Perfons, who learned to deftgn of him. Dorigny, who was his Son-in-Law, as well as his Pupil, graved the greatefl Part of his Father-in-Law's Works. Vouet, rather fpent with Labour than with Years, died in 1641, in the fifty-ninth Year of his Age. He had a Brother, whofe Name was Aubin V ouet, who painted after his Manner, and was a tolerable Performer. V ouets Works were agreeable in Comparifon with thofe that had hitherto been done in France ; but he was every where a Maimer ift : His greateft Perfection was in his agreeable Colour- mg, and his brifk and lively Pencil ; being otherwife but indif- ferently qualified : He had no Genius for Grand Compofitions, was unbappy in his Invention, unacquainted with the Rules of Perfpeclive, and underflood but little of the Union of Colours, or the DoSlrine of Lights and Shadows : The Pajfions of the Soul are not at all exprefs'd in his Figures, and he con- tented himfelf with giving a certain Air to his Heads, which had no Meaning in it. His Cielings are the beft Part of his Per- formances, and mewed his Difciples the Way to make finer than any France had ever feen before. He ^4 Lives of Eminent Painters, 8V. He had one Advantage above other Painters : There never was a Mafter, whofe Manner made fuch an Imprefllon on the Minds of his Difciples, and was fo generally followed by them. But it mufl: be owned, that if this Manner deftroyed the inli- pid Gout in France, it introduced one fo unnatural, fo wild, and (being eafy) fo univerfal, that his Difciples, and mod of the French Painters have been debauched by it: They can hardly get rid of it to this Day. But it is believed Vouet followed his Intereft more than his Judgment, in forming that expedi- tious Manner already mentioned. 75. Peter Testa. WA S born at Lucca, in the Dukedom of Florence, in the Year 1 61 1 ; and having laid the Foundations of Painting at Home, went very poor in a Pilgrim's Habit to Rome ; and fpent fome Time in the School of Domenichi?io, but afterwards fixed himfelf in that of *Peter Cortona. He was fo indefati- gable in his Studies, that there was not a Piece of Architecture, a Statue, a Bafs-Relief, a Monument, or the leaft Fragment of Antiquity, in, or about Rome, that he had not defigned and got by Heart. His Manner of Living was miferable to the lafl Degree ; infomuch, that Sandrart, meeting him one Day de- Jignhg the Ruins about Rome, in a wretched Condition, having fcarce wherewithal to cover his Nakednefs, he took Pity on him, carried him to his Houfe, clothed him, fed him, and employed him to defign feveral Things in the Gallery of yufti- niano ; after which, he recommended him to other Mafters, who fet him to work. He was fuch a Man-hater, and fo wild, that Sandrart could hardly have any of his Company : His Genius was fo fiery and licentious, that all the Pains he took ferved him to little Purpofe ; and the Trouble he gave himfelf about his Pictures fucceeded as ill, as may be feen by the Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 4.5 the few Pieces that are left of his Doing, and by the little Value that is fet on them thro' his bad Colouring, and the Hardnefs of his Pencil : But he was commendable for his De- figns and Prints, of which he engraved Part himfelf; Part were done by CefareTefta, and the reft by other Gravers. There * is a great Deal of Fancy, Gaiety, and Pra&ice in them ; but little Intelligence of the Claro-Ofcuro, little Reafon, and little Juft- nefs. He was a Man of a quick Head, a ready Hand, and a lively Spirit in moffc of his Performances : But yet for want of Science, and good Rules to cultivate and ftrengthen his Genius, all thofe hopeful Qualities foon ran to Weeds, and produced little elfe but Monfiers, Chimera s, and fuch like wild and ex- travagant Fa?icies. He was drowned in the Tyber, in the Year 1650; fome fay, he accidentally fell off from the Bank, as- he was endeavouring to recover his Hat, which the Wind had blown into the River, as he was defignmg a Profpect : But others, who were well acquainted with the morofe, and melan- choly Temper of the Man, will have it to have been a volun- tary and premeditated Act. He ufed thefe two Marks, r |J 7 JJ V 76. Peter Brugf.l WA S the Son of old Peter Brugel, and elder Brother of John (commonly called V elvet Brugel, becaufe of the V elvet Garments which he generally affected to wear.) He was a preat Painter of Boors, &c. and for his extraordinary Humour in reprefenting feveral Scenes of Hell, the Fables of Tantalus, Prometheus, Ixion, St. Anthonys c Iemptatio7i, and the like, was. firnamed the Hellijh Brugel. Charles 4 6 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 77. Charles Le Brun WAS born at Paris, in the Year 1620, and came into the World with all the happy Difpoiitions necelTary to form a great Matter. He was the Son of an ordinary Sculptor ; who lived in the Place-Maubert : His Father was employed in the Garden of the Hotel Seguier, and ufed to carry his Son with him thither, to make Mm copy fome Defigns after him. Mon- fieur the Chancellor, walking one Day in the Garden, faw the Lad defigning, and took Notice that he did it with Eafe and Application for one of his Years ; from whence he concluded, it was the EfFecT: of an uncommon Genius : He was pleafed with his Phyfiognojny, and liking his good Inclination to the Art of Tainting, bid him bring him his Drawings from Time to Time ; which he did : And the Chancellor afterwards took Car e to ad- vance him, fupplying him with Money, to encourage him in the Profecution of his Studies. The young Man, animated by Monfieur de Seguier s Favour, made fo wonderful a Progrefs in his Profeflion, that the Chan- cellor recommended him to Vou'et, who was then Painting the Library of the Hotel Seguier, and was looked upon by all the French Painters as the Raphael of France. Le Brun, at fifteen Years old, drew two Pi&ures, which furprized the Painters of thofe Times : The firfb was the Por- trait of his Grandfather, and the other reprefented Hercules knocking down Diomedess Horfes. The Chancellor Seguier, fome Time after, perceiving by Le Bruits Eagernefs to learn, and the Progrefs he had made in his Art, that he was fit to travel to Italy, fent him thither, in the Year 1639, and main- tained him there three Years, allowing him a considerable Pen- fion. While Le Brun was at Rome, he perfected himfelf in the Knowledge of thofe Parts of his Art, that got him univerfal Repu- Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 47 Reputation. " The young Painters, who return from Rome, in their Way home to the other Parts of Europe, generally ftop at V znice, to learn at leaft a Tin&ure of Colouring ; but Le Brun had not that Curiofity. The firft Picture he drew when he came back to France, was the Brazen Serpent which is in the Convent of the Monks Pic- pus : He afterwards did feveral other Pictures for the Chancellory his Protector. When he compared his own Works with thofe of his Con- temporary Painters in France, he knew what Value to put upon himfelf , and the Defire he had to make himfelf known, put him upon folliciting to have the Drawing of thofe Pieces that were to be expofed to publick View : To this End, he drew the Picture for the May, for the Church of Notre Dame, two Years fuccefllvely. The firft Year he painted the Martyrdom of St-. Peter ; and the fecond, that of St. Stephen. Le Sueur (whom we mentioned in the Life of Simon V wet) was the only Painter, who difputed the Superiority in his Art with him ; but whe- ther it was that Le Brun was thought more Ikilful than Le Sueur, or that his Manner was more in Vogue ; or elfe that his Friends were more numerous, or more potent ; he alwavs had the Advantage of his Competitor, in Opportunities to figna- lize himfelf by Grand Compositions. Monlieur De Lambert's Gallery in the Ifle of Notre-Dame y and the Seminary of St. Sulpitius, fettled his Reputation on fb folid a Bafts, that Mr. Foucquet, who was then Surintendant of the Finances, employed him to paint his fine Houfe of Vaux le Vicomte : Le Brun has there fhewn the Greatnefs of his Genius, and the Depth of his Knowledge, especially in the Apartment called the Chamber of the Mufes : One of the Cielings iii that Houfe is efteemed the be ft Piece he ever did. Mr,. 4.8 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. Mr. Foucquet, to engage him wholly in his Service, allowed him a Penfion of twelve thoufand Livres a Year; and paid him befides for his Works. After Mr. Foucquet\ Imprifon- ment, the King, who refolved to have the Arts flourifh in his Kingdom, as well as the Sciences, caft his Eyes on Le Brun, ennobled him, honoured him with the Order of St, Michael, and made him his principal Painter. In this Poft he gave ftill greater Demonftrations of his Merit to his Majefty, than ever he had done before. Mojtfieur Colbert, Minifter of State, and Surintenda?jt of the Royal Buildings, valued him as the beft Painter in the World. Le Brim laid the Project of Confirming the Foundation of the Academy of Painting, by his Majefty 's Authority : He prefented it to Mr. Colbert, who propofed it to the King, not only to confirm it, but to render it more iliu- ftrious than any of that Kind ever was. The Revenues of the Academy were enlarged, new Statutes made, and that Body was to confift of a Protector, a Vice-Protector, a Director, a Chan- cellor, four Rectors, fourteen Profeftbrs, of whom one was to be for Anatomy, and another for the Mathematicks : There were alfo to be Afiiftants to the Rectors and ProfefTors, feveral Coun- fellors, a Secretary, and two Sergeants. He drew up another Project for an Academy at Rome, to be Founded by the King, for the Ufe of the French Students who travel thither ; in which there was a Director to be maintained, to take Charge of the Penfto?iers, whom the King was to fend from Time to Time, to ftudy at Rome ; and who, by their Edu- cation there, might be made capable of ferving his Majefty in his Paintings, Sculptures, and Buildi?jgs. Le Brun was very zealous to advance the Fine Arts in France : In this he feconded the King's good Intentions, who entrufted Mr. Colbert with the Execution of his Orders. That Minifter did nothing without confulting Le Brun ; and this Painter not only undertook the Charge of taking Care of the Performance Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 49 Performance of Things in general ; but alfo, was very careful about his own in particular, finifliing his Pictures with the greater!: Induftry, and informing himfelf exactly of every Thing that related to his Art, either by reading good Authors, or con- futing Men of Learning. His Works at Sceaux, and in feveral Houfes in Paris, fpread his Fame all over Europe ; but efpecially what he did for the King ; the moll confiderable of which are his large Pi&ures, containing the Hiftory of Alexander the Great, in the deling of the Gallery of V trfailles, and the great Stair-Cafe there. When the King made Le Br tin his principal Painter, he gave him alfo the Direction of the MaiiufaBures at the Gobelines ; which he minded with fuch Application, that there was nothing done, but what was after his Dejigns. The Facility with which he followed his Studies at Rome y and advanced himfelf in the Knowledge of his Art ; as alio the firft Pictures he drew after his Return, gave the World a great Opinion of his Ability : They might be faid to be perfect, tho* not to fo great a Degree as thofe that he drew afterwards. He had a fine Genius ; his Senfe was penetrating and folid, and his Invention eafy, tho' with Reflection : He never admitted any Thing into the Compofetion of his Pictures, without firffc confidering it well : He confulted Books and Men of Learning, that he might omit nothing which was convenient for him to introduce into his Piece. His Rxprejftons were ingenious, and there was nothing outrageous in his Fire. Upon the Sight of his firft Productions, one would have thought he would have had a particular Talent for foft and tender Subjects. He drew raoft- ly Pieces of Devotion in his younger Days, and had no Oppor- tunity to fhew the Grandeur of his Genius \ but in his future Paintings he made it appear that his Talent was univerfal ; that he could excel alike in the ferious Manner, as well as in the gay ; in the terrible, as well as in the tender. He treated of H Alk- £jo Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. Allegorical Subje&s with a great deal of Fancy ; but inftead of taking his Stories from the Fable, as is generally done, he in- vented them all himfelf. He always efteemed the Roman School for Defign, tho' he in- clined to imitate that of Bologna, in his Stile and Gufto, and particularly Annibale Caracci, whofe Manner he followed : Tho' his Gout is not fo lively as that Painter's, it is lefs loaden, more equal, more graceful, and always correct. His Attitudes are well chofen, natural, expreilive, and judicioufly contrafted : His Draperies are well fet, agreeable, and mew the Naked with Difcretion ; but there is no great Variety in his Folds : His Expreffwns, in all his Reprefentations, are beautiful. He ftudied the Pajfwns with extraordinary Application, as appears by the curious Treatife he compofed on them, which he adorned with demon fixative Figures ; neverthelefs, even in this, he feems to have but one Idea, and to be always the fame, degenerating into Habitude, or what we call Mamter : 'Tis true that Habi- tude is beautiful ; but for want of examining Nature, and feeing that fhe can exprefs the fame Pajfions feveral Ways, fome of which are very lively, and piquant, he has very much leflened the Value of his Productions in the Opinion of the Criticks. What has been faid of the Pajfions may ferve for his Defigns, both of Figures and the Airs of his Heads ; for they are almoft always the fame, tho' they are well chofen ; which doubtlefs pro- ceeded either from his reducing Nature to a Habitude he had contracted, or elfe from his not having enough confidered the Diverfity of which fhe is fufceptible ; for the Painter ought to obferve her particular Productions as carefully as her general. Le Brun, when he came back from Italy, faw the Neceflity of leaving off his wild and trivial Tints, which his Matter V ouet made ufe of for Expedition fake : He got rid of them in a great Meafure ; he tempered them, and brought them nearer the Truth ; yet, whatever Pains he took to leave them quite off, j he Lives of Eminent Painters, &V. $i he always retained in his Stile, Tints that were too general ; ef- pecially in his Draperies, and his Carnations ; and did not enough mind his Reflections, which contribute very much, both to the Force and Roundnefs of Obje&s, and to the Union and Likenefs of Imitation. His Local Colours are bad ; he was too carelefs in his Endea- vours, to give each Object its true Character by this Part of his Art : For this Reafon only, his Pictures (as we fay) fmell of the Pallet, and have not the Effect as to the Senfatioit of Nature, as thofe of other Matters have, whofe Local Colours are more ftudied. For a Proof of this Affertion, the Spectator need only put one of Le Bruns beft Pieces, by one of the beft of the V metian School ; he will find by the Comparifon, that the Ex- cellence in the Part of the Local Colours, is on the Side of the V znetian Piclure, and that Le Brun comes infinitely flhort of it on that Account. As Le Brun erred in that Part of his Art, fo he committed a Fault in his Lights and Shadows : He feldom took Care to make the Fore-part of his Pictures fufriciently brown, and was of Opinion, that great Lights ought not to be placed in the hindmoft Part of a Picture ; by which Means moft of his Works have very little Effect : 'Tis not the fame as to his Intelligence of the Claro-Ofcuro, tho' he did not ftudy that fo much as he ought to have done in his Youth ; yet in his riper Years he faw the Neceflity of it, and practifed it with Succefs. His Grand Compofltions, containing the Hiftory of Alexander the Great, are fufficient Proofs of his Knowledge of this Artifice. His laft Productions, which are his beft, fhew the Extent of his Ability and Genius ; and the Prints that are engraved after them, will render his Name famous to all Pofterity. He was a univerfal Painter, performing well alike in all Kinds, Land- skip only excepted : His Pencil was light and mellow ; he was equally exact and eafy in his Performances. In a Word, he H 2 was 5 2 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. was Mafter of fo many Parts of his Art, that he deferves a Place among the Painters of the firft Rank ; and whatever may be laid to leffen the Value of his Works, his Memory is ftill reve- renced, and a due Share of Praife given him throughout all Europe, and no doubt Pofterity will continue to do Juftice to his Merit. He died in his Lodgings at the Gobelins, in the Year 1690. His Tomb is in a Chapel which he purchafed in the Church of St. Nicholas du Chardonnet, where his Widow erected a magnificent Maufoleum to his Memory. From Painters we come now to /peak of other Artifts, no lefs renowned in their Jeveral Profeflions \ and firfi of 78. Cornelius Danckerts De Ry, WHO was born at Amflerdam, in the Year 1661. He was full forty Years Majler-Mafon and Architecl of that fa- mous City ; fucceeding his Father Cornelius in that Employ : Du- ring which Time he finifhed a great many noble and fuperb Edi- fices, to the great Improvement and Enlargement of that City : He built the New Port at Harlem, the three new Churches there, the Exchange for Merchants, and innumerable other Or- naments to the faid Place. By great Study and Experience, he invented a Way to build Stone-Bridges upon great Rivers, with- out flopping or diverting the Current of the Stream ; a Proof whereof he made upon the River of Amfterdam, in the Year 1632, by a Bridge two hundred Feet in lengthy and landing upon feven Arches. He died in the Year 1634, aged feventy- three Years. 79. Cor- Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 53 79. Cornelius Cort, BO R N in Ho/land, in the Year 1536, was an excellent Mafter in the Art of Graving ; which, tho' it be the fame with Painting, as to its Defign, yet differs very much from it in the Practice : For the one is performed by the gentle Touches and Pliablenefs of the Pencil ; the other, by the Sharpnefs of the Steel, and a fteady Hand. Painting has its Perfection in the natural Application of the Colours to the Body they fhould re- prefent ; the other only in defcribing its Contours, Relievo s r Lights, and Shadows ; and tho' it be reduced only to Black and White \ or rather (as Artifts call it) to Claro-Ofcuro ; yet it re- prefents the Superficies of Bodies, their Form and Roundnefs, with no lefs Beauty, Force, and Elegance, than the bell: of Pic- tures. He made Italy, for a long Time, the Place of his Re- fidence, where he graved the Defigns of Raphael Urbin, Titia?!^ and others. He died at Rome in the Year 1578. 80. Theodore Corenhert WA S born at Amfierdam, in the Year 1522; he was an excellent Engraver after the Defigns of Martin Hem- shirk and others, and was alfo a goed Poet, and died at Der- goude, in the Year 1590. 8,i. Henry De Keyser, BORN at Utrecht, May the 15, 1565, was Architect of Amfierdam, and one of the beft Carvers in Holland ; of which that magnificent Tomb of the Prince of Orange at Delft, and the Town-Hall at Amfierdam, are fufficient InfTanees. He died at Amfierdam, on the Day of his Birth, in the Year 1621, aged fifty-fix Years, 82. John 54- Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 82. John Sadeler, "T3 ORN at Brujfels in Brabant, in the Year 1550, attained jj to a great Excellency in Graving, merely by his own In- dustry ; without any one to inftrudt or direct him. His Per- formances have much Sweetnefs in them ; as appears by what lie has done for Martin de Vos and others. In the Year 1588, he went to Franckfort ; and after he had fpent fome Time there, he removed to Muni c hen, where the Duke of Bavaria honoured him with a Gold Chain and a Medal. In 1595 he went to Venice, where he died of a Fever, in the Year 1600, aged 50. 83. Raphael Sadeler, BRother of John, and born alfo at Brujfels, in the Year T 555> was an excellent Engraver ; as may be feen by his Works, particularly in the Jefuit Raheruss Lives of the Bava- rian Saints ; a Book chiefly remarkable for its curious Cuts : Alfo the Book of Hermits, which he and his Brother John to- gether graved. He fometimes pra&ifed Painting alfo, as well as Engraving; and accompanied his Brother John in his Travels to Munichen, and to Venice, in which Place he alfo died. 84. James Math am, SOn-in-Law to the famous Henry Goltzius, of whom he learned to Grave, and attained to great Perfection in that Art, was born at Harlem the 15th Day of OElober, 1571, and died January the 20th, 1631, aged 61 Years. 85. James Livhs of Eminent Painters, &c $6 85. James Vr ancq^u art, APcrfon of an indefatigable Spirit,fo thirty of Honour, that he applied himfelf with incredible Diligence to Paintings Geometry, ArchiteSlure, and Poetry, all at one Time. After he had fatisfied his Curiofity in viewing the Rarities of Rome, he was chofen ArchiteB to the Archduke Albert of Auflria, and the Infanta Ifabella his Wife ; in which Employ he conti- nued till the Death of the faid Archduke : After whofe Deceafe he employed the utmoft Secrets of his Art and Skill, in erecting to his Memory that ftately Maufoleum, which is to be feen in the Church of St. Gudule in Brujfels ; a Work fo noble, and magnificent, that it was thought worthy to be the Subject of a Book, containing a Defcription thereof, and the Pomp of his funeral Solemnity in Copper Cuts. He was likewife Architect and Engineer in Ordinary for the City of Brujfels. The Form of that magnificent Church of the "Jefuits, reputed one of the beft contriv'd in the Low-Countries, is of his Defig?t and Di- rection. Being a Man of no lefs Subtilty in Contrivance and Invention than he was induftrious, he invented a little Steel Engine, which with the Noife it would make by the Motion of certain Springs, at a determinate Time, mould wake him at what Hour of the Night foever he intended to rife, being fet for it accordingly ; and at the fame Time would light his Can- dle,by Means of a little Match, dipp'd in Brim/lone, which took Fire at the Striking of the Machine. After he had lived a long Time at Brujfels, in much Splendor and Reputation, he died in the Low-Countries, to the great Grief of all true Lovers of Art. 86. Giles 5 6 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 86. Giles Sadeler, Without derogating from the Praife due to his Uncles John and Raphael^ was the beft Engraver of them all ; in- fomuch, that he was efteemed worthy to be Engraver to three of the German Emperors fuccemvely, viz. Rodolphus, Matthias, and Ferdinand the Second. He was not only an incomparable Graver, but a very good Painter, oftentimes defigning, and drawing Portraits from the Life, which he afterwards en- graved. He lived at Prague in Bohemia, and there died in the Year 1629. 87. Henry Hondius, A Good Engraver, and Defigner, born at Duffell in Bra- bant, in the Year 1573, was defcended of noble Ex-^ traction ; and having an Inclination to the Study of this Art, he fet himfelf to follow the Inftructions of John Wierx. He fludied likewife the Mathematicks, Geometry, Archite&ure, Per- fpeclive, and Fortification, under the Direction of old John V redeman, and afterwards of Samuel Marelois, a Man whofe Works fhew he had not his Equal : In all thefe Sciences Hondius attained to good Experience, as appears by his Prints. He lived for the molt Part at the Hague. 88. Peter De Jode, Senior, WA S born at Antwerp, and brought up by the celebrated Henry Goltzius : He was an excellent E??graver and De- figner ; and lived a long Time at Rome, where he made feve- ral curious Defigns. In the Year 1 601, he returned X.o Antwerp, his native Place, where he died Augujl the 9th, 1634. 89. Paul Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. 57 89. Paul Du Pont, or Paul Pontius, BORN at Antwerp^ in the Year 1603, received his fir ft: Inftructions from Luke V orjlerman, after which he lived with Rubens. He was an admirable Artijl, as appears by a great Number of Ruben j's Dejig?js, V an Dyck's Heads, and other curious Prints, by him engraved. 90. Luke Faydherbe WA S a famous Statuary and Architect, being a Difciple of the renowned Peter Paul Rubens, whofe Inftruc~tion none ever received, but proved excellent in ibme Art or other. He lived for the moft Part at Malines, the Place of his Birth. 91. Peter De Jode, junior, WA S born at Antwerp, November the 2 2d, in the Year 1606, where he received his Inftrudion from his Father of the fame Name ; proving a delicate Etigraver. At Paris, he and his Father together engraved fome excellent Pieces for Monfieur Bon-Enfant, and the Sieur IS Imago. Many fine Prints are to be feen of his doing after Rubens, V a?i Dyck and others. 92. James Callot WA S a Gentleman of good Efteem in Lorrain, born at Nancy in the Year 1594. His Father was Herald at Arms to the Duke of Lorrain. In his Youth he learned to grave of one Croce, who made the Stamps, by which the Money of that Country was coined ; he afterwards lived fome Time with a Painter of Lorrain, of fufficient Ability, who taught him I to 5 8 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. to defgn well ; by whofe Inft ructions, having attained a com- petent Skill and Judgment, he travelled in Company of fome Gentlemen of Holland, to Italy, and ftay'd a considerable Time at Rome : There he applied himfelf to etching, finding that more eafy to him, and his Performance in it freer than graving ; which he did with fb much Application and Induftry, that his Works were finimed to a Miracle, and became the Admira- tion of all that had Eyes to penetrate into the Delicacy, and Beauty of them. The Grand Duke of Tufcany, one of the moft curious and magnificent Princes, at that Time in Europe^ fent for him to Florence, and lodged him in his Palace, near his own Apartment, that he might have the Satisfaction of fee- ing thofe delightful Curiofities he was continually at work upon. Here it was that he graved, The great Market-Place at Florence, with fo much Art and Skill, that it is impofliBle to give it its due Commendation. His Miferies of War, The Hiflory of our Saviour s Pajfion, The Temptation of St. Anthony, with a Multitude of others, mew that he was a Miracle of an Artiji for Miniature, and had not his Fellow in this Kind. He was afterwards fent for Home, by the Duke of Lorrain, where he married a Lady of great Beauty, rich and young, with whom he lived the Refidue of his Life, in much Content and Satisfaction. He died much lamented at Nancy, March the 27th, 1635, aged 41 Years; and was buried in the Church of the Cordeliers, where his loving Confort caufed a fumptuous Marble Tomb to be erected to his Memory, with his Effigy and Coat of Arms, viz. On a Field Azure, five Stars Or. 93. Leo Lives of Eminent Painters, ©V. 59 93. Leo Van Heil, BRother of Daniel and John Baptifl Van Heil, was born at Bruffels, in the Year 1605. He was a good Painter of Flowers, Cattle, and other little Animals, and was alfo well fkilled in ArchiSlure, and Perspective. 94. Peter Verbrugghen WAS renowned for his excellent Faculty in carving all Manner of Figures in Stone. He lived at Antwerp, the Place of his Birth. 95. Simon Bosboom, BORN at Emden, in the Year 16 14, was a very good Architect and Mafon, in the Service of the Elector of Brandenburgh, 96. Wenceslaus Hollar, A Gentleman of Prague in Bohemia, born in the Year 1607 • He was by Nature much inclined to work in Miniature and Etching, in the laft of which he became exceeding famous ; tho' he was not a little difcouraged therein by his Father, who ■would have had him follow other Studies. In the Year 1627 he left Prague, and vifited many Cities of Germany ; when coming at laft to Colen, he waited upon the Earl of Arundel^ that truly great and noble Patron of Arts, who was there on his Embafly to the Emperor, at Vienna ; and afterwards came over with him to England. He lived here a considerable Time, and drew many Churches, Ruins, Perfons, and V tews, which he afterwards 1 2 etched, 60 Lives of Eminent Painters, &c. etched^ and which will always be in good Efteem. His parti- cular Excellency was etchings and there are great Numbers of his Prints in England, in the Collections of the Curious, to give him a Share of Praife, equal to his Merit, which Words cannot fufficiently do. He at laft entered into the Service of the Duke of York) but on Account of the Troubles in England, he retired to Antwerp, and there died. 97. Aertus Quellinus, BO R N at St. Trude in the Country of Liege, was an ex- cellent Architect, and Carver in Stone, W ood, &c. Ant- werp was the Place of his Relidence. 98. Stephen de la Bella, A Native of Florence in Italy, in the Year 1614, was a very good Painter in Miniature, but was molt excellent at Etching. He was a Perfon of great Judgment, and fruitful Invention ; and had the Honour to be brought up by the in- comparable Callot. He died in the Year 1664. His Prints are to be found in great Abundance, with thefe Marks, . HenJ Jnijtrs- Jculp. Ja , Mnfjjen <■ ncr. S> ADAM. ELiSHJLIMLR *Sfe- . , . J/aMf un/t figure huffcrtt wr Ze mande vne Rename? tjii tLui-eva a. jamais? ; i ,4V. tfollar Jecii . CMerfertr ytftxit el axcuAit,_ \ // PETRU£ PAUUJS RUBENS Ires rcnmnmee; mats enror plus- na&2f per //-j- raresdons.a'e Irs furltes- it ' etoit ' pourveu: car cejh lui Ur fui UuUs arts liberaux. ent emptier* toutes lrurj?irt^s-,pcur amaflfr dans luj,lr plus haut drtrur pc til an: certe In painture aiiantfairt un compact avec la fa mefpcur promuyrr/ts tnuaryes per tout I ' vniversjn'a paint matirijuce enjan intrnium . mats VUltrfuenc/r acccmp*yturr Je i* S)t^titir,et Richf/fe, ia UUemeni ajprnre,4uele- R.otj d'Ejpayne,leRaij deTrance,et le Hay d'A.nflftrrre;en temeinaa* 'tfj/f merifef/luionfjiirt Ikonevrde Irur ordresde CftevAterie.Aiuuts-e/i la villttdr re/ts fteumjetut -. tivtts,}e 1.8 a*e luin.ifjy. aufi'du deplorable icurdejoh tre/paf, tatt iCj-o/lr %c df mair^ ^ r„„ ^ AJJTHOINE \9VN UYCK CHEVAJXIER DU ROY D ANCJLETERRE E,ft ne a Anvery lan xjyy.ls z2*.dumcis de mars;a efte le vray Pkamur de no/ire Jteele . on vcitpar tout Je Jes- mrrvsi!l/v Jot t en frpurlrairte ou en talleaux/dont ila monftre Jen rffnit Jivm, c 'eft dommaye que la mart neura ravij d un tel miracle de la nature en un Jt' las a^fi it fnourut a Londres tan tf^j. Ant. van 13yek pinxit. P*vl. Penhur feulffit . Je.M.ftrJjf*n>- aceuJft. J 7 ADAM "WILLAERT^ £ en til faint re de merj-jbateausftde pehtesftguresjitr le r wage, ports jet dansles petites barcques.il eft ne err Ah vers eft i'an 1 jjj-et i! a prisja detneure dans 1a I'ille d ' Utrecht . AJ WUUc-rts- drlin . f*. vandr Jleett ptdpjtt . I ■WLetj fjetts excudtt- I BAN (JUILLAUMX BAUUR }J 'at'tf de Stnaf&urj.itfaifeit m/rveille en U miniaturs.il a Jemturi-'aKemr ehri. le due Brajjiynano. I'an 1 tjj-il ' esleit a Veni/e/et Je ia ileft venu per* I'Empereur cfAUnaifns Ferdinand, d Vtene:e/}antjh , nf>aintrr+mt>urut t'an 164.0. to. Jjuillrtmue Bauur pin-Kit . f « tAeyJJens-freit ee rxeudit. Ia. Bjylrrt pinxit . Petr.BitUfu Jrulp • la . Mr^jjens excuJit . IOHAKNES VAN BALEN 92 Ron Paimlre en petit el enjranJ., il a. eslr qitelaue le/ans en ltd lit', a pris son Chmmettcemenh aitprej' son Pen- Jfenderic fan Baien, II jut fit ' enAttiwrs Ian ip~ii, fu il cc lientmentinanl Johannes van Eaten finxtt U.'Jfrl/ai-feeie I. Jicrssens excaJit HENRY "VAN D ER BORCHT, h-pubUrs I cut 13-8 6* ei apres tl cut apprir la, Peuiture Chez^Gdles de Tilcknlrargh Eftant vetourne a ' Italie il a. denteiu-e a-Franckcndael u/fc^ues- en Ian. t'Szy ^ uil. est venu dentetu-er a-trancfot-t ait Falaiuiat, estajtt atiffi tin amaieur nJmtraJfle de toui-cjcrhe varetez^et anit^itez^ aiufy, aue _U Catite drjtrondell le Chzrt/cfieet pour ley ruras- pieces ei Curtyttez. Cjcul aueit en de lay, tani en JrfedalleJ- que Peinttt res et autre fortes a Antiautkez^, Henrtcus vanderK/'rckt umun- jyinxiti HKKfll-ir fectt ,'6>o L>em,etJclamEhh etc. devtnt TUaiflre tres exce/ent etrenomme en toutes Jbrtes de jrandes,etj>etites Jxaures, et S.y.Xol p ; m eamme Ausfi it a fatsc enjtnjle terre Jes aeuvres ires telles peur le Rjiy,fan twii eneeres- en la eour Ju Jlay Je Deftemareiju/ beaueevp Je Jtvlatrleaux-.ilje Henta pre/ent a la Hays au Jerviee Jejin Aliespr It Prince Apranye.Jen maiftre e/tott A\raham Blemmaeri > THOMAS WIIXEBORXS 1 HO$ jSAERT 35; PeincCre tres , rtntrmme,trj.ra.iil aJmirallement &ten enaranJirs' jt^ures./r/itme ynurjrouvotr faire un yourtntict eix.4ctementbien>fo-n MtteJ> /e I*nnsr d ' ontnfsJf/mryFreJsrif luj a fautjaire heauceup pieces, domme aufli fonjfll-z. le Prince £uitUume,auffi pcur d au tres Monatyuenjbn mat/ire ejioit pera-ra Severs/ eji tie Je Beryue Jur le 'Z-odm fan l Giyst Jetneur a pre/int aAnvers. The-wii'/st/rrts pinxit. Caenr.H^numans'J'eu^/ir. ltI.'bl{e1J l ^'ens^ sxsudif > BOTSTAVCWTVTL PESTERS . .34 Tres bon Teinctte de 7€ers, Galmes, et Tempestes iiffentent bien, cum rtautres, oaleres, etJiakulies sur j*fer. Coytwyt forts-ant, ses e^loianemenjs son! cfoures, jfatct bten. les Pilles, el Chateaux, on vott par hut, JBeatccotip de ses (eures, dans Les J£aur0ns des amateurs, it est ruzhf J Anuers, etjttt ne en. L'anS ifri^ , Toannes J^QrJiren. j>uixtt ef excudit, 1&: l&lLir feed, "FRANCOIS WOUTERtS 1 eft tie a Lyere /anifi^.faict extrememrntiirnl^f^ehies-Jwures^rininpalfmmtnufxet au/Ji des paijaatsr.il a. es'te'dixriple -de JPaul Rubens-,et parjoti addres- e/ijktet peinctre- Je* I' fc mpereur dAllemaujne Ferdinand le iS?'J"e'f(ant a lie 'a fee JhnAmbaJJiJeur enAnfleterre.eu eftant arrive rceut la navelle quejajvty fjmperi . tr eft tit mart tan tc^y.en apres-Jutpeinctre rt nomrne d? fhambredii frtnee de^alles-.ay ant dem sure auelijue temps- a jLemdres- Jert retaurne a A „rer, rvfaifant valair par/en art-f r Wmter , pinxit . P „.j,/ a J, ; r .J p . u.ui e yjy mr * x <. . ~Peinctre Cxcelhnk ervfruicts votsfovs oiseaxtz et fku.rs>}Les (jueltes ilfaict extreme rue nJ- bien cut wtturel il demeure a-Antttrs aitanfite, ■ ' Adria^vs de Bie, JPaintre bien e/Ume en arandes jig lire s et aulfres crdonnances, Pere de I'-Auctheur de ee liu7-e,qu il at de me lire Icnia temps en Italie etc", tie dans la irille de Isijere en Ian 15 $4 .. ' Prrru.r Jfeert- ptnxt'e- . X.utas 1 'ors'trrmans miticr fcvlpstt. AJ^IAJEN VAX VHTsTN-E^cD ,., ^° SVaiieff deJJelft.m(ellcs , et at teUement Jurpa/fe' fen MajTire cn.-1'art Je Paincttire, a'uil J'?st rendu m ies milieurs nuiifires de ncftre _ c/ecle, qont ces (hefs dattres a'uen de^/d aci- nus, a ji 1 1 ens ent m Jm eftuae -{kil)ut Jes -belief ceurer . ' ^-fnfentits Van rtyi I itn^/f . "I.icetm Kerfs Gulp. J, '(•41- Merssens <*«■« Jit. A fit -van Dyrk finytit. 'UatifJela pille Je Vtreehf en I'an 1 (T o^.aijant apriz. ehez- paintr-ee en uerre, mats Jss- peiite? maifiree.Jaiis Jiielaue hone in/truction , per/a ^rmn.ie Jilwenee /-/? Jevenu uti if ex hen painire.eti jTaiirex.il r.-l hen Je/rifneur eemme on peut voire far erf ceuvrFf. bi van B rihoftrrft irii'n. ' /»«•/. Battiu Jl-ulf' In.i&eg/ptu exevOt. ABRAHAM VAltf DIEPENBEKE 5~J- £,st tie a BoiArJucii > atjant ey Jewnt ex free peur quelque temps I art Je yeinJ/'e Jur les vitrei, en quay il Jhrpas-fe tous ceux Je Jon temps- 'mate a pre/ent feft adjpnne apetnJre taute Jhrte/ie petncture mesmes- aux JesJ'eins- tres curteujement/atiant eu pour mat/he Pt'erre Pavl ILutrlrenr , tl'enf Ja rejijenee a A.nvers-, Apr. a Jtepentek pixit » Paul . Pmtiufjeulpftt. Ie.ltf.etifjen? exeujit . DANIEL VAN H EI L ^ est nr a 1 ? Brufftttes fan ltfoq^es-t han petnsire en pai/ageir,travaille hi en au vif.Je mermr Its mat/ens eC viffes- irus-fantrr, ce quife peult cojjnoistre par lrsauci>itp> de fa£//raux qui/ a feicf . lrHevf?itu-eoceudu: Contrcleur Jes fortifications £Our I: fermce Je /a Ma/^enFlanJre etc.pettre extirorJtnaire en £etites Jit/tires, tres - bien e/h'mez Jes amateurs et jrands Sety'/jrour leur rarete. tie Jans la ytlle J„4nvers . S.Coquts jrmxit-. . C. Caukercken Jculgfit IB an Philippe cSei^neur de Covwenlerch, etc.il eft du tresfameux jteintre f. Dam e I Z ej 'ers ile/tdeuenu peintre tres e/hmeenfleu _£ rafmus QufUinus jrinxit' 01. VAN THIELEU tie aKaUnes, tan 161B. a efle difcvple de la Compagme de Iefiis, aupres lequelle mnt/es tablaux en rendetles tejmoinacjes. TLicharl Collin Jculpsir Pixtor Br uc ell eniis C-Caukercken fecit . Trcs-bari Tzintrt ae THcrj, ca/rwcs et tcmpzsTes fatai/teis jur menQaieres, CVilles.ct Chateaux etc . t rares, et tiea esBmees jjai~ toils Daifs,£riacc£afementr 'aes artutteurs et arands <5egnieui~s. acmeufyznt en dinners O-'i/tf cie sa nuisance ; m Lan iS \ , CAROLVS VATST 5AV0YK"N, faitWe extraordinaire enpetties figures princepakment en nuesjranJtment ejtmcz Xpautt^aris^L Viffe a ylni'ers dtmeurant enMoIlande . HENRY VAN DER JBO RC HT PE.INCTRE \e a Tranchenjael V* en Out Vfus-X+.Eeh leauel ama/fa l ArP Pou,- It ruxelles lan 16x2.. le 17. de TJlay, tient agrefentja re/idence en h. ville ctldnvers, ou _pardeflus lexercice du _pinceau jiarticulier en _pourtrat'ts, iljait jsrofeffion de vendre des [pr-mtes, en la cofnoi/fance de/quetes d efljirfft^tere'frtverfe. Isan. Meyjfeis jiinxtf. , Cornells Uleyjfens Ji"h: f CORNEJLLE DANCKEE.TS DE RY / °" . FutneaAmfterdamlan ) eft-mourut liTjqage de yj ans.a efie environ ao anemaiftremacm ct Atchttecte Je cesle tarrt rrnomme'e VtlUMvitni ettta place du feu Jon Pert au mesmc nom,oui avail en'fon vivantfewvi la Utile ; dans ceste nrefmecharoe.ilafaietuneQrandenomhre Je gntnds etjienalei baftimentsfvarceauelaoarandk femenide la Utile feftt en/on temps,ilaiaftt la novelle parte de Haerlemjes trots novetles Eqlifes.TaBourfe de marehartts.et innummerables ouvraoes apartenants A lornement de teste VilleMtreuva par oranJe t-xperienee twvencion de haftirletponts Ae pierrefans reftraindre le courr de leau Jurdes grander Bivierii c ommeil enftt lapreuve laAiaviere,ou (e Our luj afatct prefent June cliefne d ' oraveeune ma.datlle,et en lan ijgj. il eft alle prrtrdre fa Jemeure a Veni fe eu il mourut de la ehaude fiehre lantfoo. ^ MetiJTraifxA RAPHAEL ^ADELER 8 J. Excellent cnjrai-eur natif de Bruffelles en Brabant. Ian jfjf.il a efte premierement iamafquineur en Jer/et aprez. ilfat addonne auffl a la jravure Juieant 1'ex.emple de fan frer lean, en U quelle it a Jt lien projite quit ejt parvenu a la plus kaute dejre de la delicatejje , come an peut voire en Jee oeuvrer.prineipalement les Jatnets de Daiu'ere er que/que /ivres de fferemits qu'tl a Jaict avee Jon Jre r fear. , avec qui il eft venu de.. 'neurer a Municften en Bariere ,et de la a Vent/e ou il m ourul.il at 'ele ' ocur auela* teiwrpeintre tnourut 1 fj 1 ■ le 3,0. Ianuier . Airt 'vanZerHoesj r cuir ■ 39. Scmttnan. finx . I ■ Merjfetis exctti . -Toan. Jleys/e/is ex.c . Un de premier^ atumvevrx da> t&ute 1etnonJa,t!eftne en An vary Ian at aprt? Jon art cJun Jrs ancles hM,at7lapharl fadelar, mair tiles' at fufinontetant,ainfi du'il fitt repute'^d^ne dartre tanu enamt'eur da trois ^mpereurs d Alls magna dejuite,a faavair P^udatphe.MaithtaS" . s t Ferdinand? le dauxirfrrtr da aette nam . carjtt'artde la jravure 4. tribue quetyuefaveur Auderautrasetla a ratafee' aettuj Jj 'per dejfur tauter larautrer la trcuvant capable nan feulement a la plus- haute qrande^fe du burin .tnair a 7a pfus jrande fubtilite *t Jeliratejfe aus ardonanaes.et paur/raicts Its quells*' il 'afttienjaittqu'tl eft impasft kfe J a l as- affequar avaa fan entendement ties quetlas it a te plus- Jpuvanr patnt at Jeff a if nee f au natural aleuant lev e rryraver, il demewait a Praja an Bahama ou H maurut- / an , i o?*<) . Jtg&hu 'J&p* finkit. Pst.JeTaJe fitJpft. I*. May/fen? ax cuds*, / PETRUS DE IODE ^ 8S - A este tres boil enyraveur, et Jejjejt/neur tres illuftre. il ' ajaict plufleurs" chefs des ceuvresil a le>ntf lemps denieure a Kome , et en lan ifot-retournoit ett Anvers, ville Jeja natfiz/tre. aifant en pour tnaijlre Henri £o It 7, , /'/ M-ferJinaf/f f>inxif p £j lid* tymer fi-utpji}. Mrtjffeni rxi-uj/r. PAUIAJS DU PONT 8 S- Gravf-ur at/fiiirable en tattle douce, nattfa'AnveK- I 'an 1tf03.il 'a fhiei Jon aprentifage che? Lueas yos-termang./'t at Jemeure aupres ^Atonf. r K ubens, 0 u ilajairt quantite'de trhefe d'ceuvreeiaiji pourMonf. r -van ll-J w r ,„,, t .Dyr-k .comme on vokfjrfw ceuvra, P . MU , frul ^ t . / SIMON ^B03BOOA\ f 5' Natif J'-Etiilen en I an 1014. juir von . irclitkff et taillenr Ic pcrrc 1] at ej}e employe aiijmuce An tirs 'illnjireTmice E.lc[Tmr leBranAenlrurel JsJfJl- Stiiah ft'mctf . Vehicle fJc (hilv.Icun. M*s