Coenraed Lauwers or Coenraad Lauwers, Latinized as Coenradus Lauwers''Coenraed Lauwers''
at the Royal Library of BelgiumCoenraad Lauwers
at the British Museum(1632 in

Antwerp Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest city in Belgium by area at , after ...

– 1685 in Antwerp) was a Flemish engraver, etcher and print seller. He was mainly active as a reproducer of works of leading Antwerp painters.

Life

He was the son of

Nicolaes Lauwers Nicolaes Lauwers or Nicolaas Lauwers (1600, Antwerp – 1652, Antwerp), was a Flemish engraver, draughtsman, publisher, printer and art dealer.Coenraad Lauwers
at the

Netherlands Institute for Art History The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: ), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center in the world. The center specializes in document ...

He likely trained with his father and may have worked in the family workshop.Conrad Lauwers
in Ecartico He resided in Paris from 1657 to 1659. The Flemish artist biographer

Cornelis de Bie Cornelis de Bie (10 February 1627 – ) was a Flemish '' rederijker'', poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He is known internationally today for his biographical sketches of Flemish ...

included a short poem about Lauwers on page 562 of his book of artist biographies,

Het Gulden Cabinet or ''The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting'' is a book by the 17th-century Flemish notary and ''Chamber of rhetoric, rederijker'' Cornelis de Bie. It was published in Antwerp. Written in the Dutch language, it contains artist ...

, with the remark that from his visits to Paris Lauwers brought back prints by the French engravers

François Polly François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; 16 ...

Robert Nanteuil Robert Nanteuil (; 1623 – 9 December 1678) was a French portrait artist: engraver, draughtsman and pastellist to the court of Louis XIV. Life He was born in Reims in 1623,'Coenraerd Lauvvers''
in: Cornelis de Bie, ''Het Gulden Cabinet'', Johannes Meyssens, Antwerp, p. 562 In Paris he engraved after the designs of

Laurent de La Hyre Laurent de La Hyre (; 27 February 1606 – 28 December 1656) was a French Baroque painting, Baroque Painting, painter, born in Paris. He was a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism. Life La Hyre was greatly influence ...

the majority of the images of Christian saints that formed the series ''Porticus religiosa effigies''. The images were executed in

grisaille Grisaille ( or ; , from ''gris'' 'grey') means in general any European painting that is painted in grey. History Giotto used grisaille in the lower registers of his frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua () and Robert Campin, Jan van Ey ...

to resemble the statutes of these saints in the convent of the

Franciscans The Franciscans are a group of related organizations in the Catholic Church, founded or inspired by the Italian saint Francis of Assisi. They include three independent religious orders for men (the Order of Friars Minor being the largest conte ...

at la Place Royale of Paris.

He was registered at the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke as a wijnmeester (master who is the son of a (former) member of the Guild) in the specialty of engraver in the guild year 1660–1661. He also became in the same year a member of the "Sodaliteit van de Bejaerde Jongmans", a fraternity for senior bachelors established by the Jesuit order in Antwerp. In the guild year 1660-1661 Jakobus Buys became his pupil. He may have visited Florence around 1677 as he made an engraving after a fresco in the

Palazzo Pitti The Palazzo Pitti (), in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present ...

in Florence. He died in Antwerp in 1685.

Work

Like his father Nicolaes, he is known for engravings after Rubens. He was one of the engravers who collaborated on the '' Theatrum Pictorium'' (''Theatre of Painting''), a book published in the 1660s by

David Teniers the Younger David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile artist ...

for his employer, the

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (5 January 1614 – 20 November 1662), younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand III, was an Austrian soldier, administrator and patron of the arts. He held a number of military commands, with limited success, a ...

. It was a catalog of 243 Italian paintings in the Archduke's collection of over 1300 paintings, with engravings of the paintings taken from small models that Teniers had personally prepared. David Teniers' brother

Abraham Teniers Abraham Teniers (1 March 1629 – 26 September 1670) was a Flemish painter and engraver who specialized in genre art, genre paintings of villages, inns and monkey scenes. He was a member of artist family Teniers which came to prominence in the 1 ...

was involved in organizing the publication of the work.''Theatrum pictorium''
at the

British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...

He was further one of the engravers who collaborated on the book of artist biographies authored by

and published in 1662 in Antwerp by Joannes Meyssens under the title ''

'' (''The Golden Cabinet''). The book contains artist biographies and

panegyric A panegyric ( or ) is a formal public speech or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing. The original panegyrics were speeches delivered at public events in ancient Athens. Etymology The word originated as a compound of - ' ...

s of 16th- and 17th-century artists, predominantly from the

Habsburg Netherlands Habsburg Netherlands were the parts of the Low Countries that were ruled by sovereigns of the Holy Roman Empire's House of Habsburg. This rule began in 1482 and ended for the Northern Netherlands in 1581 and for the Southern Netherlands in 1797. ...

. While the book is written in Dutch, it contains engraved portraits of the artist with a short description in French. The portraits were engraved by a large number of artists including Lauwers. Lauwers engraved the portraits of

Artus Quellinus II Artus Quellinus II or Artus Quellinus the Younger (alternative first name: Arnold; variation on family name: Quellijn, Quellyn, Quellien, Quellin, Quellinius) (between 10 and 20 November 1625 – 22 November 1700) was a Southern Netherlands, F ...

, Joris van Son, Pieter van Bredael,

Pieter Boel Pieter Boel or Peeter Boel (baptized on 10 October 1622 – 3 September 1674) was a Flemish painter, printmaker and tapestry designer. He specialised in lavish still lifes and animal paintings. He moved to Paris, where he worked in the gobelin f ...

, and Pieter Verbruggen the Elder for this publication. He participated in a publication containing 10 plates and a frontispiece of views of Crete and Malta after drawings by Jan Peeters the Elder published by Jan Peeters in Antwerp around 1665. Lauwers engraved the frontispiece and plate of Heraclion and Lucas Vorsterman the Younger the remaining 9 plates. He further engraved a map of the city of

Scherpenheuvel Scherpenheuvel-Zichem (; ) is a municipality and city located in the province of Flemish Brabant, Flemish Region, Belgium, encompassing the towns of Averbode, Messelbroek, Okselaar, Scherpenheuvel, Schoonderbuken, Keiberg, Kaggevinne, Testel ...

. He made reproductions of Rubens' tapestry cartoons for the series on the Eucharist commissioned around 1625 by

Isabella Clara Eugenia Isabella Clara Eugenia (; 12 August 1566 – 1 December 1633), sometimes referred to as Clara Isabella Eugenia, was sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, which comprised the Low Countries and the north of modern France, with her husband Albert ...

for the monastery of the Descalzas Reales in Madrid (''Elijah and the Angel'', ''The Defenders of the Eucharist'' and ''The Four Evangelists''). He engraved Rubens' ''Marriage of the Virgin'' after an engraving by

Schelte a Bolswert Schelte a Bolswert or Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert (c. 1586 – 1659) was a Frisian engraver who worked most of his career in Antwerp where he was one of the lead engravers in Rubens' workshop. He is known for his reproductive works after Peter Paul ...

. He made an engraving after one of the frescoes in the series of lunettes painted by

Pietro da Cortona Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...

in the Sala di Venere of the

in Florence. The print was published by

Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi or Latinized Ioannes Iacobus de Rubeis (1627–1691) was an Italian printer and publisher of engravings, active in Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipalit ...

around 1677 in Rome as part of series of 15 unnumbered prints after other frescoes of Pietro da Cortona in the Palazzo Pitti. Other printmakers who worked on this series include

Cornelis Bloemaert Cornelis Bloemaert II (1603 – 28 September 1692), was a Dutch painter and engraver, who after training in the Dutch Republic worked most of his career in Rome. His workshop in Rome played an important role in spreading Italian art throughout E ...

, Albert Clouwet, Jacques Blondeau, Lambert Visscher,

Charles de La Haye Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...

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, François Spierre and Pierre Simon also contributed to this series entitled ''Heroicae Virtutes Imagines quas eques Petrus Beretinus pinxit Florentiae'' (Images of heroic deeds painted by the knight Pietro Berrettini of Florence).''Heroicae virtutis imagines (Images of heroic deeds) (Images of heroic deeds)''
at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lauwers, Coenraed 1632 births 1685 deaths 17th-century Flemish engravers Flemish art dealers Painters from Antwerp