Identifier: shorthistoryofen00hinduoft (find matches)
Title: A short history of engraving (and) etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hind, Arthur Mayger, 1880-1957
Subjects: Engravers Engraving Etchers Etching
Publisher: London : A. Constable
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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orn at Ypres in 1617, who had studied Jan Thomasunder Rubens, did far more powerful work than Furstenberg. Hewas master in the Guild of St. Luke at Antwerp in 1639-40, butsoon left the Low Countries for Italy and Germany, and by the year1652 is found settled in Vienna as Court painter to the Emperor. ^ Others have thought that the engine, worked backwards and forwards with thewheel at right angles to the resulting curve, and gradually brought round in a circlefrom the elbow, would give the same regular sweep. I doubt if the perfect curvecould be achieved unless the wheel were rolled in the direction of the curve itself, i.e.set at right angles to the pole. 264 MEZZOTINT In 1658 he must have met Rupert at the coronation of Leopold I.at Frankfurt, and his earHest dated plate, Pro Deo et Patria (1658),which belongs by subject almost certainly to the immediate time ofthe coronation, is executed in absolutely the same manner as thePrinces Great Executioner of the same place and date. There
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Fig. 95.—Prince Rupert. Portrait of Himself. can scarcely be a doubt as to his instructor. Except for this plate,however, his work, especially the portraits, seems more influencedby the style of von Siegen. But he attained much greater depthof tone than the latter, without any essential advance in technicalmeans, the engine or roulette laying the foundation, and the scraperbeing still quite sparingly used. Like many of the earlier mezzo- VAILLANT—BLOOTELING 265 tinters he combined the etched line, e.^i^. in his Achilles Disguised(1659). His Girl at the Wiiidoiv, after Dou (1661), and thePeasants Drinki?ig of 1664 (after Andreas Both (?)), are quite themost excellent plates which had been produced up to this time, andshow a skilful management of light and shade. Far more a professional mezzotint engraver than Thomas (who w. Vaillant.only produced 12 to 15 plates) is Wallerant Vaillant, a French-man who studied in Flanders and settled later in Amsterdam.Prince Rupert is said to have

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