Portret van Richard Weston, eerste graaf van Portland
Wenceslaus Hollar
1645 - 1670
Medium
etching
Dimensions
242; 195
About this artwork
blad: hoogte 242 mm x breedte 195 mm
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...