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 ...

About this Item

Title: 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 ...
Publication: [London :: s.n.],; 1694.
Rights/Permissions: This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.
Subject terms: Artists.; Engravers.; Portraits.; Artists -- Portraits.
Link to this Item: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57086.0001.001
Cite this Item: "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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57086.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

Pages

14. Henry de Bless.

Borne at a Town called Bovines near Dinant and lived about the year. 1550. Grew to great perfection without any assis∣tance, but his own happy Genius, and his diligent observation of Joachim Patiniers Works, whose house he frequently visited, and got those secrets thence which made his Landskips so de∣servedly celebrated. There is at Amsterdam a piece of his of the disciples going to Emaus, the Passion, the Resurrection, and some others of his Designs, but the best of his Works were bought up for the Emperor Rodolphus, and transported to Ger∣many. He Painted an Owl always as a mark of his Pieces, in∣timating perhaps thereby, his clear apprehension of the Art amidst the obscurity of his education.