RUBENS. [flanbers.
The works of no painter have been so happily engraved
as those of Rubens, particularly by the artists of his time,
whose plates he often retouched. His principal engravers
were, Lucas Wosterman, the brothers Bolswert, Paul
Pontius, Vischer, and Van Schuppen.
Rubens left behind him some manuscripts on painting,
containing precepts in direct opposition to his practice >
they were chiefly in Latin, and have not been printed.
The works of no painter have been so happily engraved
as those of Rubens, particularly by the artists of his time,
whose plates he often retouched. His principal engravers
were, Lucas Wosterman, the brothers Bolswert, Paul
Pontius, Vischer, and Van Schuppen.
Rubens left behind him some manuscripts on painting,
containing precepts in direct opposition to his practice >
they were chiefly in Latin, and have not been printed.