Portret van Franciscus Junius de Jongere

About this artwork

Portret van de filoloog en oudheidkundige Franciscus Junius de Jongere.

Art Historical Context

Wenceslaus Hollar's *Portret van Franciscusius de Jongere*1641) is a etching capturing the likeness of Franciscus Junius the Younger, a 17th-century Dutch phil and antiquarian. Born in 1591, Junius was a scholar of ancient languages and texts, whose work bridged classical antiquity with emerging studies of Northern European manuscripts. Hollar, a Bohemian-born master printmaker who flourished in England during this period, immortalized Junius at a time when intellectual portraits celebrated the era's humanist pursuits amid the turbulence of the Thirty Years' War and early English Civil War. C...

About the Artist

Wenceslaus Hollar · 1607–1677

Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was a prolific Bohemian etcher who became one of the most accomplished printmakers of the seventeenth century. Born in Prague, he trained under Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt before entering the service of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1636. Hollar spent most of his career in England, where he produced approximately 2,740 etchings documenting an extraordinary range...