Pieter de Bailliu, a Flemish 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 Antwerp in 1613. After having learned the first principles of engraving in his own country, he visited Italy for improvement, and there engraved some plates. He returned to Antwerp after 1637, and from 1640 to 1660 engraved several of the works of the most celebrated of the Flemish masters, particularly Rubens and Van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next...

. Although by no means equal to Vorsterman

Lucas Vorsterman

Lucas Vorsterman was a Baroque engraver. He worked with the artists Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, as well as for patrons such as Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel and Charles I of England....

, Bolswert

Boetius à Bolswert

Boetius à Bolswert was a renowned copper-plate engraving engraver of Friesland origin. In his time the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens called forth new endeavours by engravers to imitate or reproduce the breadth, density of mass and dynamic illumination of those works...

, or Pontius

Paulus Pontius

-Biography:Paulus Pontius, an eminent Flemish engraver, was born at Antwerp in 1603, and was instructed in the art of engraving by Lucas Vorsterman; but he improved his designs by the advice and friendship of Rubens, from whose works he engraved many admirable plates...

, his prints are held in considerable estimation. Meyer's 'Künstler-Lexikon' gives a list of 103 of his engravings, on which his name is found spelled in a variety of ways. The following are his principal works:

Portraits

• Lodovico Pereira de Castro, Envoy at the Peace of Münster
  Peace of Münster
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• Claude de Chabot, Envoy to Münster.
• Johann Leuber, Envoy to Münster.
• Pope Urban VIII
  Pope Urban VIII
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• Jacob Backer
  Jacob Adriaensz Backer
  Jacob Adriaensz Backer was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He produced about 140 paintings in twenty years. In his style he was influenced by Wybrand de Geest, Rubens and Abraham Bloemaert. Also his drawings are highly interesting and skillful...
  
  , Dutch painter; after Backer.
• Jan Bylert
  Jan van Bijlert
  Jan Hermansz van Bijlert was a Dutch portrait painter in the style of Caravaggio.-Biography:Jan van Bijlert was born at Utrecht, the son of a the stained glass worker Herman Beernts van Bijlert, and became a student of Abraham Bloemaert. He moved to Amsterdam, where he married in 1625.. He...
  
  , painter, of Utrecht; after Bylert. (pictured)
• Albert, Prince of Arenberg; after Van Dyck.
• Lucy, Countess of Carlisle
  Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle
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  ; after the same. (pictured)
• Antoine de Bourbon, Comte de Morel, after the same.
• Honoré d'Urfé
  Honoré d'Urfé
  Honoré d'Urfé, marquis de Valromey, comte de Châteauneuf was a French novelist and miscellaneous writer.- Life :...
  
  , Comte de Châteauneuf; after the same.

Subjects after various masters

• Heliodorus driven from the Temple; from a drawing by P. van Lint
  Pieter van Lint
  Pieter van Lint was a Flemish Baroque painter, active in Antwerp and Italy, who painted both religious subjects and genre scenes.-Biography:...
  
  , after Raphael
  Raphael
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• A Pieta; after Annibale Carracci
  Annibale Carracci
  Annibale Carracci was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early career:Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family...
  
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• St. Michael vanquishing the Devil; after Guido
  Guido Reni
  Guido Reni was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style.-Biography:Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert. Soon after, he was joined in that...
  
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• The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau; after Rubens.
• Christ praying in the Garden; after the same.
• The Dying Magdalen; after the same.
• The Combat of the Lapithae; after the same.
• The Holy Family; after Theodoor Rombouts
  Theodoor Rombouts
  Theodoor Rombouts was a Flemish Baroque painter specializing in Caravaggesque genre scenes of card players and musicians.-Biography:...
  
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• The Crucifixion; after Van Dyck.
• The Virgin in the Clouds; after the same.
• Rinaldo and Armida; after the same.
• Susanna and the Elders; after Marten Pepyn
  Maarten Pepyn
  Maarten Pepyn was a Flemish Baroque painter.-Biography:It is unknown who taught him how to paint, but he became a master of Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1600. The following year he married Maria Huybrechts. Together they had five children, of whom a son and a daughter became painters...
  
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• The Scourging of Christ; after Diepenbeeck
  Abraham van Diepenbeeck
  Abraham van Diepenbeeck was an erudite and accomplished Dutch painter of the Flemish School.-Biography:...
  
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• Christ crowned with Thorns; after the same.
• The Discovery of the true Cross by St. Helena; after P. van Lint.
• Theodosius carrying the true Cross before St. Ambrose; after the same.
• Christ bound to the Pillar, with Angels holding the Instruments of the Passion; after J. Thomas
  Jan Thomas van Ieperen
  Jan Thomas van Ieperen was a Flemish Baroque painter and engraver active in Antwerp and at the Habsburg court in Vienna....
  
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• St. Anastasius reading; after Rembrandt.