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Nicolaes Lauwers - Fra Lelio Blancatcio Commander of Malta

Fra Lelio Blancatcio (Brancaccio), Commander of Malta

An original engraving by Nicolaes Lauwers "Fra Lelio Blancatcio (Brancaccio), Commander of Malta" is based upon a design created by Anthony van Dyck. This impression is printed upon fine 17th century, hand-made, laid paper and with wide, full margins as published in Antwerp in 1645 by Gillis Hendricx. Containing the period foolscap watermark along the lower margin. Fra Lelio Blancatcio (also spelt Brancaccio) was an Italian military strategist who served as a principal war advisor to Antwerp and Flanders. He was the author of several important military books, including, I Carichi Militari. Blancatcio was Knight of Saint-John of Jerusalem and Commander of Malta. Fra Lelio Blancatcio is a superb, original example of portrait engraving from the famous Iconography of Anthony Van Dyck and engraved art of Nicolaes Lauwer.
 
Title: Fra Lelio Blancatcio (Brancaccio), Commander of Malta (Fra Lelio. Blancatcio. Commendat. Melit March. Mont. Silvan. A. Consil. Collater. Neapol. Cath. MA. A. Cons. Stat. Et. Suprem. Campi. Marschalc. (Brancaccio), Commander of Malta)
Engraver: Lauwers, Nicolaes (Leuze (Tournay) 1600 - Antwerp, 1652)
Designer: Van Dyck (Van Dyke), Anthony (Antwerp, Flanders, 1599 - 1641)
Date: 1645 (First Published Edition by Gillis Hendricx, Antwerp)
Medium: Original Engraving
Note: Nicolaes Lauwers: One of the finest engravers in the 'School of Rubens' Nicolaes Lauwers studied art in Antwerp and is believed to have learned engraving techniques under Paulus Pontius. In 1620 he became a Master in the Guild of St. Luke and a Dean in 1635. During his career Nicolaes Lauwers engraved fine plates after such contemporaries as Seghers, Jordaens and Diepenbeeck, but his finest work is considered to be his plates under the direction of Rubens and Van Dyck. For Rubens, Nicolaes Lauwers engraved such portraits as that of Isabella, Infanta of Spain, and for Van Dyck, Fra Lelio Blancatcio, the Commander of Malta.
  Anthony Van Dyck and "The Iconography": The great age of portrait engraving took place in the early and mid seventeenth century. In France such remarkable portrait engravers as Robert Nanteuil and Antoine Masson achieved fame at least equal to the most highly regarded painters. In Belgium and Holland the division between painter and engraver/etcher was much less distinct. Rembrandt was as great an etcher as a painter and both Rubens and Van Dyck conducted a school of engravers under their close personal supervision. In the 1620's Peter Paul Rubens founded an engraver's school in Antwerp in order to render his paintings and drawings into copper. Such great engravers as Lucas Vorsterman (1595-1675), Nicolaes Lauwers (1600-1652), Boetius a Bolswert (1580-1633) and Paulus Pontius (1603-1658) formed the cornerstone of what was soon known as the 'School of Rubens'.
  At the age of nineteen Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp, 1599-1641) was admitted into the painter's Guild of Antwerp, as a Master. A year later he was the senior assistant to Rubens. A superb portraitist, Van Dyck became famous throughout Europe and later was appointed court painter to King James the First of England.
  Van Dyck was first introduced to both engraving and etching by Peter Paul Rubens. Around 1630 he began his most ambitious printmaking project to create a uniform series of engravings of famous contemporaries derived from his portraits. Van Dyck provided his engravers with extensive preparatory work, including drawings and oil sketches. He then corrected his engraver's proofs and even etched the outline features on some of the portraits. In the following years he designed and supervised about eighty such portrait engravings which were published individually by Martin van den Enden. His principal engravers included Paulus Pontius, Nicolaes Lauwers, Pieter de Jode, Lucas Vorsterman, Robert van Voerst and others. These wonderfully graceful portrait engravings were a high point of Baroque art and proved to be perhaps the most influential group of portraits in the history of printmaking.
  The first complete published set of The Iconography did not appear until four years after Van Dyck's death, in 1645. During this year Gillis Hendricx published a series of one hundred Van Dyck portrait engravings in three general categories; I, Princes, II, Scholars, and III, Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Patrons of Art. (Interestingly, portrayals of painters and engravers were deliberately placed on a level equal to nobility and scholars.) The entire series now bore the title, Icones Principum Vivorum Doctorum Pictorum ... Impressions from this first published set contain the Gillis Hendricx letters, 'G. H.' along the lower plate mark.
  The demand for portraits from The Iconography was so great that many subsequent editions were printed in the following decades. The final edition was in fact published as late as 1759 and many of the plates still survive in the Louvre. Detecting early from late impressions of portraits from The Iconography, however, is not difficult. With the deterioration of lines and contrasts, late impressions bear only a ghostly relationship to first edition printings. Secondly, Gillis Hendricx impressions were printed on a fine, laid paper with a distinct watermark of a Foolscap containing five points, four large bells and braided hair (seen in this impression in the lower margin). This watermark appears on paper used in both Antwerp and Holland between 1640 and 1660. Lastly, later impressions appear without the 'G. H.' along the lower plate-mark. This impression of Fra Lelio Blancatcio, then, is clearly from the 1645 edition.
  Fra Lelio Blancatcio (also spelt Brancaccio) was an Italian military strategist who served as a principal war advisor to Antwerp and Flanders. He was the author of several important military books, including, I Carichi Militari. Blancatcio was Knight of Saint-John of Jerusalem and Commander of Malta. The full title under the image reads; "Fra Lelio. Blancatcio. Commendat. Melit March. Mont. Silvan. A. Consil. Collater. Neapol. Cath. MA. A. Cons. Stat. Et. Suprem. Campi. Marschalc. (Brancaccio), Commander of Malta".
Raisonne: F. Wibiral, L'Iconographie d' Antonie Van Dyck, Leipzig, 1877.
  Catalogue #41. Second State, as published in the 1645 Hendricx edition.
Reference: (For watermark identification) Rembrandt: Experimental Etcher, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1969, pp. 181 - 183. (Catalogue #15, illustrated on p. 182.)
Source: Icones Principum Vivorum Doctorum Pictorum Chalographorum Statuariorum Nec Non Amatorum Pictoriae Artis Numero Centum AB Antonio Van Dyck Pictore AD Vivum Expressae Eivsque Suptibus Aeri Incisae (The Iconography)
Size: 8 3/4 X 6 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
  Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition: Printed upon fine 17th century, hand-made, laid paper and with wide, full margins as published in Antwerp in 1645 by Gillis Hendricx. Containing the period foolscap watermark (as described) along the lower margin, under the plate-mark. A brilliant, early impression and in excellent condition throughout. Fra Lelio Blancatcio represents a superb, original example of portrait engraving from the famous Iconography of Anthony Van Dyck.
Condition: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco includes an impression of this engraving in its permanent collection.
Price: Sold - The price is no longer available.
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Original engraving by Nicolaes Lauwers designed by Anthony Van Dyck.

Fra Lelio Blancatcio Original engraving by Nicolaes Lauwers designed by Anthony Van Dyck
Fra Lelio Blancatcio (Brancaccio), Commander of Malta (Fra Lelio. Blancatcio. Commendat. Melit March. Mont. Silvan. A. Consil. Collater. Neapol. Cath. MA. A. Cons. Stat. Et. Suprem. Campi. Marschalc. (Brancaccio), Commander of Malta)

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Anthony Van Dyck (Van Dyke) (Antwerp, Flanders, 1599 - 1641)
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01.- Cornelius De Vos Pictor Iconum Antwerpiae Engraved by Lucas Vorsterman Cornelius De Vos, Pictor Iconum Antwerpiae (Cornelis De Vos) Engraved by Lucas Vorsterman designed by Anthony Van Dyck Lucas Vorsterman (Zaltbommel, 1595 - Antwerp, 1675) Original Engraving 1645 (First Published Edition by Gillis Hendricx, Antwerp) Sold
02.- Fra Lelio Blancatcio Engraved by Nicolaes Lauwers Fra Lelio Blancatcio (Brancaccio), Commander of Malta Engraved by Nicolaes Lauwers designed by Anthony Van Dyck Nicolaes Lauwers (Leuze 'Tournay' 1600 - Antwerp, 1652) Original Engraving 1645 (First Published Edition by Gillis Hendricx, Antwerp) Sold
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06.- Jan van Ravesteyn Engraved by Paulus Pontius Joannes van Ravesteyn, Pictor Iconum Hagae Comitis (Jan van Ravesteyn) Engraved by Paulus Pontius designed by Anthony Van Dyck Paulus Pontius (Antwerp, 1603 - 1658) Original Engraving 1645 (First Published Edition by Gillis Hendricx, Antwerp)  
07.- Sir Kenelm Digby Engraved by Robert Van Voerst Kennelmus Digbi, Eques (Sir Kenelm Digby) Engraved by Robert Van Voerst designed by Anthony Van Dyck Robert Van Voerst (Arnheim, 1597 - London, 1636) Original Engraving 1645 First published edition by Gillis Hendricx, Antwerp Sold
08.- Paulus de Vos Engraved by Adrien Lommelin Paulus de Vos Engraved by Adrien Lommelin designed by Anthony Van Dyck Adrien Lommelin (Amiens, 1636 - Antwerp, after 1673) Original Engraving c. 1660 - 1670  
09.- Paulus Pontius Calcographus Antwerpiae Engraved by Paulus Pontius Paulus Pontius, Calcographus Antwerpiae Engraved by Paulus Pontius designed by Anthony Van Dyck Paulus Pontius (Antwerp, 1603 - 1658) Original Engraving 1645 (First Published Edition by Gillis Hendricx, Antwerp) Sold
10.- William Cavendish 1st Marquis and Duke of Newcastle Engraved by Lucas Vorsterman William Cavendish, 1st Marquis and Duke of Newcastle Engraved by Lucas Vorsterman designed by Anthony Van Dyck Lucas Vorsterman (Zaltbommel, 1595 - Antwerp, 1675) Original Engraving c. 1630  

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