The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...

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The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...
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[London :: s.n.],
1694.
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Artists.
Engravers.
Portraits.
Artists -- Portraits.
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108. Henry Hondius,

A good Engraver and Defigner, born at Duffell in Brabant in the year 1573. He was by extract Noble: Having an incli∣nation to this art, he set himself to follow the Iustructions of John Wterx, He studied likewise the Mathematicks, Geogra∣phy, Perspective, Architecture and Fortification under the directi∣ons of the samous Samuel Marelois and others, in all which he attained to good experience, as appears by his Prints, He lived usually at the Hague.

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