Portret van Johan baron van Reede, heer van Renswoude
Wenceslaus Hollar
1650 - 1670
Medium
etching
Dimensions
116; 166
About this artwork
F.G. Waller Bequest, Amsterdam
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...