Marcus De Bye or De Bie, a Dutch painter and engraver

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

, was born at the Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

 in 1612. He was instructed in painting by J. van der Does

Jacob van der Does

Jacob van der Does was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.-Biography:Van der Does was the son of the secretary of the Amsterdam city council. He was more attracted to the arts than to note-taking, and went to study drawing with Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert. He left at 21 to go to France, and from...

, and produced some landscapes, with animals, in the style of that master, which are not without merit; but he is chiefly deserving of notice for the excellent etchings he has left us of animals, after the designs of Paulus Potter

Paulus Potter

Paulus Potter was a Dutch painter, specialized in animals in landscapes, usually with a low point of view. Before Potter died of tuberculosis, 28-years old, he succeeded in producing about a hundred paintings, working continuously.-Life:Few details are known of Potter's life...

 and Markus Gerard

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger

Marcus Gheeraerts was an artist of the Tudor court, described as "the most important artist of quality to work in England in large-scale between Eworth and Van Dyck" He was brought to England as a child by his father Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, also a painter...

. He died in 1670, We have by him:

• The fat Spitzhund.
• The Mule-driver.
• Three sets, of eight each, of Cows and Oxen; after Potter.
• A set of sixteen of Sheep; after the same.
• A set of sixteen of Goats; after the same.
• A set of sixteen of Lions, Leopards, Wolves, Bears, &c.; after the same.
• A set of sixteen of the Natural History of the Bear; after Markus Gerard. 1664.