Pieter de Bailliu

Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, after Anthony van Dyck.

Pieter de Bailliu (1613 after 1660)[1] was a Flemish engraver.

Life

He was born at Antwerp in 1613. After having learned the first principles of engraving in his own country, he visited Italy for improvement, and there engraved some plates. He returned to Antwerp after 1637, and from 1640 to 1660 engraved several of the works of the most celebrated of the Flemish masters, particularly Rubens and Van Dyck.[2]

According to the RKD he worked in Rome and was the father of the engravers Peeter-Frans and Bernard.[1]

Works

Although by no means equal to Vorsterman, Bolswert, or Pontius, his prints are held in considerable estimation. Meyer's 'Künstler-Lexikon' gives a list of 103 of his engravings, on which his name is found spelled in a variety of ways. The following are his principal works: [2]

Portraits

Jan van Bijlert, after a self-portrait

Subjects after various masters

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Sources

  1. 1 2 Pieter de Bailliu in the RKD
  2. 1 2 Bryan,1886-9

This article incorporates text from the article "DE BAILLIU, Pieter" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.


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