Dutch artist Introduction

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Chapters: Schelte a Bolswert, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Jaap Penraat, Marjan Borsjes, Sandy van Ginkel, Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Aldo van Eyck, Willem Marinus Dudok, Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Pieter Post, Jacob Matham, Anton van Wouw, Edwin Zwakman, Johan Braakensiek, Carli Hermès, Michael Burghers, Anna Visscher, Rineke Dijkstra, Dana Lixenberg, Henri Pieck, Hendrik Bary, Irma Boom, Herman Hertzberger, Erwin Olaf, Piet Zwart, Johan van der Mey, Marc Koehler, Piet Esser, Henk Kuijpers, Rudolf Bonnet, Max Velthuijs, Jan Hoogstad, Hans Aarsman, Hubertus Quellinus, Jan Baptist Xavery, Jaap Bakema, W. H. Gispen, Ootje Oxenaar, Frederik Bloemaert, Master W with the Key, Iepe Rubingh, Giovanni Vasanzio, Master of the Amsterdam Death of the Virgin, Harmsen van der Beek, Jaap Drupsteen, Luc(as) de Groot, Jan Wils, Rudy VanderLans, Witte Wartena, Harry Elte, Pieter Xavery, Romeyn de Hooghe, Dancker Danckerts, Cor Visser, Daniël Stalpaert, Dirk Bus, Harrie Geelen, Pieter van Abeele, Arent Passer, Justus Vingboons, Master of the Gardens of Love, Michel de Klerk, Emmy Andriesse, Dirk Brouwer, Christina Chalon, Cornelis Dusart, Johfra Bosschart, Jo van den Broek, Jan Wiegers, Charles Philippe Dieussart, Henricus Hondius II, Simon Duiker, Mari Andriessen, Jan Montyn, Chris van der Hoef, Henk Bos, Willem Hondius, Niels Helmink, Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, Wim Boost, Mark Bischof, Anton Janson, Iwan Baan, Piet Blom, Pieter Brattinga, Jan Bouman, Peter de Smet, Jet Boeke, Aart van Dobbenburgh, Loek Bos, Pi de Bruijn, Hugh Maaskant, Kees Andrea, Adrianus Bleijs, Willemina Ogterop, René de Boer, Alphons Boosten, Jan Roëde, Greet Grottendieck, Jan Vermeyen, Jan Verheul, W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp, Maurits Post, Arendt de Roy. Excerpt: Schelte a Bolswert, a very distinguished engraver, was the younger brother of Boetius Adam a Bolswert, and was born at the town of Bolswert, in Friesland, in 1586. He settled with his brother at Antwerp, where he became one of the most celebrated engravers of his country. He died there in 1659. The plates of this excellent artist are worked entirely with the graver, and it does not appear that he made any use of the point. He engraved many plates after the most eminent of the Flemish masters, but he has particularly distinguished himself by the admirable performances he has left us, after some of the finest pictures of Rubens and Van Dyck, which he represented with a judgment and ability that give them more effect than can well be expected in a print, and appear to exhibit the very character and colour of the paintings. It was not unusual for Rubens to retouch his proofs, in the progress of the plates, with chalk or with the pencil, which corrections, attended to by the engraver, contributed not a little to the characteristic expression we find in his prints; proofs of this description are to be met with in the portfolios of the curious. He engraved with equal success historical subjects, huntings, landscapes, and portraits; and the number of his prints is very considerable. His plates are generally signed with his name. The following are his principal prints, of which we have given rather a detailed list: Elegant company in an interior, after a painting by Christoffel van der Laemen, now at the National Portrait Gallery. Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Barbé, after Anthony van Dyck, ca. 1636-1641. Schelte Bolswert: Shipwreck of Aeneas (large landscape after Rubens). A set of twenty 'smaller landscap...