Portret van François Junius
Michael Burghers
1698
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
211; 133
About this artwork
gravure
About the Artist
Michael Burghers
Michael Burghers (c. 1647/48–1727), a Dutch engraver and illustrator, was born in Amsterdam and baptized in a Lutheran church before apprenticing to an engraver from a young age. Fleeing political turmoil after Louis XIV's forces captured Utrecht in June 1672, he settled in England, arriving in Oxford around early 1673. There, he became assistant to the prominent engraver David Loggan in 1673 and ...