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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99. Cornelius Danckers de Ry.

From Painters our Book now leads us to other Artists, no less renowned in their several Arts. He was born at Amster∣dam in the year 1561. For full forty years continued Master-Mason and Architect of that famous City, succeeding his Father Cornelius in that Employ; during which time he finished a great many noble and superb Edifices, to the great Improve∣ment and enlargement of that City: He built the New Port at Harlem, the three New Churches there, the Exchange for Mer∣chants and innumerable other Ornaments to the said place: By great study and experience he invented a way to build Stone-Bridges upon great Rivers, without stopping or divert∣ing the Current of the Stream, a proof whereof he made up∣on the River of Amsterdam, in the year 1632. by a Bridge 200 Feet in length, and standing upon 7 Arches. He died Anno. Dom. 1634, aged 73 years.