Hieronymus Westonius (Richard Weston, Earl of Portland)
Medium
Etching; second state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in. (24.2 × 19.2 cm) Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 7/8 in. (32.7 × 25.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960
Accession Number
60.621.34
Tags
About the Artist
Johannes Meyssens|Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland|Wenceslaus Hollar|Anthony van Dyck · 1612–1670
Joannes Meyssens (1612–1670), also known as Johannes, Jan, or Jean Meyssens, was a Flemish Baroque painter, engraver, and print publisher whose career exemplifies the multifaceted nature of seventeenth-century artistic enterprise. Born in Brussels on May 17, 1612, and active primarily in Antwerp where he died on September 18, 1670, Meyssens made his most significant contribution not through his pa...