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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57086	The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...	Resta, Sebastiano.; Meyssens, Jean, 1612-ca. 1670.; Galle, Théodore, 1571-1633.	1694 (1694)	Wing R1174; ESTC R6548	70,371	270

him till he had attained to be a compleat Artist He bent himself chiefly to work upon the like Noble subjects of History with his Master after the Italian manner endeavouring above all to imitate the life to observe all the Rules of Perspective and foreshortnings and to place the figures well and in good order he had an exact Judgment in the composition and mingling his Colours so that wanting nothing that might render an Artist accomplished there is nothing in his Designs but what is great and lofty with all the Embelishments of Art the truth of which evidently appears in all his Works particularly A Bathsheba bathing her self The History of Joseph and his Brethren are very fine also A Venus which passeth for a Master-piece in which and many others he comes so near the elegance and artifice of the Italians that one would think he had been bred up in the School of Florence when indeed he never was above six months in Italy and had no other Master but Floris He died at Vtrecht Anno Dom. 1583. XVI Henry Goltzius Was born in the year 1538 at Mulbracht in the Countrey of Juliers in his youth having the misfortune to fall into the Fire his hand was so burnt and shrives'd that he could never after open it as it should be however after he had endeavoured a little to manage a Pen he accustomed this lame hand to draw so well that his Father hoping he might prove good at Graving sent him to learn the grounds of that Art of Theodore Corenhert This able teacher instructed him not only in the manner of Graving but together with that taught him all that was necessary for him to know both in History and Poetry to qualify him for his business and in a little time with his good management he became capable to sall to work upon his own Invention After this he travailed to Venice Florence and other parts of Italy copying as he went all that he found in the publick Monuments to be rare but at Rome he took most pains where he searched after rarities even in places infected with the Plague to the great hazard of his life At Naples he designed The antient Statue of Hercules in the Vice-voys-Palace and the most eminent Curiosities of the adjacent places amongst the rest the famous Grotto's of Pozzuoli He imitated with such success and skill notwithstanding the lameness of his hand the most renowned Gravers of Europe that he often made his Prints pass for Albert Durer's or Lucas Van Leyden's insomuch that the most experienced Judgments perceiving how they were deceived by his ingenious way of varying his manner of Graving called him the Proteus of the Art The Passion is done by him after the manner of Lucas A Madona in imitation of Durer which he dedicated to the Duke of Bavaria and was rewarded for it with a Gold chain and a Medal He drew a Bacchus with Ceres Venus and Cupid with his pen upon Vellum which is now at Rome and is much esteemed A Faune in the Emperors Closet The taking down our Saviour from the Cross which was sent to the King of Spaine He was no less happy in his Pencill then he was in working with the Crayon or his ●en of which sort his Danae sleeping by Mercury who watches to give Jupiter an opportunity of enjoying her and several others are highly valued Besides his rare painting for which this famous Master has not come short of the best Painters of Europe he has Graven and Published the most noted Pieces of Hemskirk Floris Bloclant and Spranger which are very usefull for those that would attain to any perfection in the Art of Painting He brought up James Matham Peter D' Jode and other fine Gravers that have filled Europe with their delicate Prints XVII Matthew and Paul Brill Were brethren both born at Antwerp and excellent Painters Matthew the eldest went to Rome where he was promoted to be Painter to the Pope and made in some Halls of the Vatican several Landskips in Fresco which were greatly esteemed Paul envying his Brothers renown follows him to Rome and after his death succeeded in his Employ In the year 1682 he made in the Great Hall of the Popes Palace a piece in Fresco of sixty eight foot long representing the Martyrdom of St. Clement who is bound to an Anchor and thrown into a River In the Popes Chamber he painted six of the most curious Prospects about Rome Cardinal Matthio had an Hall adorned round by him with Grotesk work and Landskips and for his Brother Hasdruball he made six great pieces containing the prospects of his Houses of pleasure He has left behind him many rare designs of Ruines and other fancies which have been communicated to the World in several Prints XVIII Michael Mirevel Born at Delft in the year 1568. His father in his youth put him to a Writing-Master to learn to write where he profited so well that at eight years of Age he was able to write more sorts of Hands and much neater and fairer then any Master in the Town His father being unwilling he should lose the advantage which so happy a beginning seemed to promise put him to learn of Wierx the Art to manage the Crayon and the Graver which this young Artist in a short time attained to do with as much perfection as he had before done his Pen insomuch that he was not quite twelve years of age when he graved of his own Invention The History of the Samatan and not much older when he did that of Judith with the Head of Holofernes The applause which these Works generally received animated him with fresh courage and inspired him with a desire to try if he could be as succesful with his Pencill To this end he went into the service of Bloclant and learnt of him all that was necessary to be observed in Colouring by means whereof he became so eminent in painting of Faces that he was lookt upon to be the best in the Low-Countries in that way Of this sort the most esteemed are his Picture of Prince Maurice of Nassau of the then Princess Dowager of Orange and Prince Henry her Son which are of an admirable roundness and the Carnation very natural and lively He sometimes took great delight to paint several sorts of Wild-fowle and the Accommodations for a Kitchen of this Sort there is one in much esteem in Delft His painting was so curious and of such reputation that the Arch-Duke Albert offered him confiderable advantages to draw him to Brussels But in vain for he being a Zealous Protestant was unwilling to live in the service of a Prince of the Roman Communion XIX Barthelomew Spranger Was the Son of a rich Merchant at Antwerp born in the year 1546. He discovered his first Inclination to painting by drawing several figures when young in the Book of his fathers Accounts which though his father was very angry at when he first saw it yet discovering thereby