Friday 24 April 2015

Engravings of two busts by Lucas Vorstermans, after Rubens,
circa 1620.
 
 
Plato, engraved by Lucas Vorstermans, circa 1620.
 
Lettered in lower margin, with title and production details: "Pet. Paul Rubens pinxit" and "Luc. Vorstermans sculp." Size - 136mm x 93mm.
 
After the painting by Rubens made for Balthasar Moretus, see below.
 
 
 
Seneca Engraved by Lucas Vorstermans after Rubens.
 
Lettered in lower margin with title and production details: "Pet. Paul Rubens pinxit" and "Luc. Vorstermans scupsit". Size - 135mm x 35mm

Lucas Vorstermans (1595 - 1675) - Engraver, etcher, draughtsman and publisher, the finest in Rubens school; broke with Rubens mid 1622 and left the latter's studio after a row. Came to London in 1624; returned to Antwerp via Paris in 1630; went blind in 1650s. On 11 July 1622 he received a six-year privilege as a publisher from Archduchess Isabella of Austria; teacher of Paulus Pontius, Martinus van der Goes and Hans Witdoeck; father of Lucas Vorsterman II.

Images and information from the British Museum.

 
Rubens - Study of Two heads, circa 1609.
 
27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (69.9 x 52.1 cm)
Metropolitan Museum - Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967.