Portret van Jan van Balen
Wenceslaus Hollar
1649 - 1670
Medium
etching
Dimensions
164; 114
About this artwork
Portret van de Vlaamse kunstenaar Jan van Balen.
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...