engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an in ...
by his father, but he
never rose above mediocrity. He worked in the Netherlands and in Spain, and was in England in 1666, the year of the Great Fire of London, and in 1667. His best prints are portraits, though they are but indifferent. Among other plates, the following are by him:
Portraits
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Cardinal Pallavicini
Francesco Maria Sforza Pallavicino (or ''Pallavicini'') (28 November 1607, Rome – 4 June 1667, Rome), was an Italian cardinal, philosopher, theologian, literary theorist, and church historian.
A professor of philosophy and theology at the Rom ...
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Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian (Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, nea ...
.
*''Catharine Howard, Duchess of Lennox''; after
van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh ...
Correggio
Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sens ...
. 1667.
*''The Magdalen''; oval; after Van Dyck.
*''The Infant Christ embracing St. John''; after the same; inscribed ''Arnoldus de Jode, sculp. Londini, tempore incendii maximi''.
*''A Landscape''; after L. De Vadder. 1658.
*''Some other Landscapes''; after
RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...