Engravings of two busts by Lucas Vorstermans, after Rubens,

circa 1620.

 

 

Plato, engraved by Lucas Vorstermans, circa 1620.

 

Lettered in lower margin, with title and production details: "Pet. Paul Rubens pinxit" and "Luc. Vorstermans sculp." Size - 136mm x 93mm.

 

After the painting by Rubens made for Balthasar Moretus, see below.

 

 

 

Seneca Engraved by Lucas Vorstermans after Rubens.

 

Lettered in lower margin with title and production details: "Pet. Paul Rubens pinxit" and "Luc. Vorstermans scupsit". Size - 135mm x 35mm

Lucas Vorstermans (1595 - 1675) - Engraver, etcher, draughtsman and publisher, the finest in Rubens school; broke with Rubens mid 1622 and left the latter's studio after a row. Came to London in 1624; returned to Antwerp via Paris in 1630; went blind in 1650s. On 11 July 1622 he received a six-year privilege as a publisher from Archduchess Isabella of Austria; teacher of Paulus Pontius, Martinus van der Goes and Hans Witdoeck; father of Lucas Vorsterman II.

Images and information from the British Museum.

 

Rubens - Study of Two heads, circa 1609.

 

27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (69.9 x 52.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum - Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967.