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Joan Guiluim Bouwer
Johann Wilhelm Baur, Joan Guiliam Bouwer, or Bauer (Strasbourg, 31 May 1607 - Vienna, 1 January 1640) was a German engraver, etcher and Miniature (illuminated manuscript), miniature painter. He is famous for a series of illustrations of Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. Biography According to Houbraken, he learned to draw and paint from the miniaturist Friedrich Brentel in Strasbourg, before embarking on a Grand Tour to Rome, where he painted for ''Brassiano'', a known patron of the arts. He specialized in watercolors of architectural follies in perspective, and for this reason was often employed to make pictures of gardens. He had the habit of talking when he was concentrating, and was known to have conversations with inanimate objects. In 1634 he broke off a trip to Naples to return to a woman in Rome.Joan Guiliam B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Meyssens
Joannes (Johannes, Jan, or Jean) Meyssens (17 May 1612 Р18 September 1670), was a Flemish Baroque painter, engraver, and print publisher. Life He was born in Brussels, but moved to Antwerp at an early age, where he became master of the Guild of St. Luke in 1640. He married Anna Jacobs (died 1678).Joannes Meyssens at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Joannes Meyssens' son Cornelis Meyssens, Cornelis became also an engraver who later worked in Vienna. Work He had a successful business collaborating with contemporary painters and engravers, and is most notable today for his book of prints called ''Image de divers hommes d'esprit sublime qui par leur art et science devront vivre eternellement et des quels la lovange et renomm̩e faict estonner le monde, A Anvers mis en lumiere par Iean Meyssens peinctre et vendeu ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |