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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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.
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Subject terms: Artists.; Engravers.; Portraits.; Artists -- Portraits.
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17. Iohn Schoorel

Was born in a Village called Schoorel, near the Town of Alc∣mar in Holland, was the disciple of Mabusius; Having travailed to the Holy land, and viewed the chiefest rarities of Palestine, particularly the river Jordan, of which he took a draught upon the place, and made good use of, in Painting the History of Joshua leading the Israelites through that river, he described the City of Jerusalem, the Holy Sepulcher and other the most remarkable things there, as they stand at this day. Pope Adrian the 6th made him overseer of the Belveder, he Painted the Picture of the said Pope, which is to be seen in the Colledge, which Adrian founded at Louvain. He was well skilled in Poe∣try, Musick and Languages; he died 1562. His picture was drawn by Antonio More, from whence the graven plate is taken.