land,[1] a good architect and sculptor; Johann Yan Dale, a sculptor, poet, and architect; with Jacob Brucer,[2] a sculptor and architect, who has executed numerous works for the Queen Regent of Hungary; these and some others have all distinguished themselves. The latter mentioned was master of Giovanni Bologna of Douai, our academician, respecting whom we shall have more to say hereafter.
Johan Yan Minescheren, of Ghent, is likewise held to be a good architect, and Matteo Manemacken, of Antwerp, is reported to be an excellent sculptor; the latter is now with the King of the Romans. Cornelius Floris, a brother of the above-named Franz, is distinguished in sculpture and architecture; it was by him that the art of executing grottesche was first taken into Flanders. Wilhelm Palidamo, the brother of Heinrich, with Johann Van Sart, of Nymwegen, a most diligent and able sculptor; Simon of Delft, and Gios Jason, of Amsterdam, all give earnest attention to sculpture, as does likewise Lambert Suave, of Liege; all have indeed attained considerable reputation: the last-named of these masters is an excellent architect and engraver of prints with the burin. He has been followed by George Robin, of Ypres, Divick Volcaerts, and Philip Galle:[3] the two last, both of Amsterdam; with Lucas, of Leyden, and many others, have all been in Italy, to design the antiquities, and improve themselves in their art, when they have for the most part returned to their country, and become excellent artists.
But all these have been much surpassed by the beforementioned Lambert Lombard of Liege, a distinguished man of letters, a most judicious painter, and an admirable architect, the master of Franz Floris, and of Wilhelm Cay. Of the ability displayed by this Lambert and others, I have received notices in the various epistles sent me by Messer Domenico Lampsonio of Liege, a person admirably skilled in letters, and possessing infinite judgment in all things; he was attached to the service of Cardinal Pole, while that
- ↑ Believed to be the before-mentioned Peter Koek.—I.
- ↑ Jacob von Breuck, who performed important works at St. Omer and Mons, about 1520-24.
- ↑ He was born at Haarlem in 1537. and died in 1612, and was the first of a family of artists; for details respecting whom the English reader may consult Bryan, Dictionary of Painters, &c.
