Wenceslaus Hollar
(1607-1677), EtcherSitter associated with 10 portraits
Artist associated with 540 portraits
Hollar left his native Prague in 1627. He spent several years travelling and working in Germany before his patron, the Earl of Arundel brought him to London in 1636. During the civil wars, Hollar fought on the royalist side, after which he spent the years 1644-52 in Antwerp. Hollar's views of London form an important record of the city before the Great Fire of 1666. Among his most ambitious projects was a set of plates of women's costumes, entitled Ornatus muliebris Anglicanus, or, The severall habits of English women from the nobilitie to the country woman (1640). He was prolific and engraved a wide range of subjects, producing nearly 2,800 prints, numerous watercolours and many drawings.
by Wenceslaus Hollar, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
etching, mid 17th century
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Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange
by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset
by Wenceslaus Hollar, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
etching, mid 17th century
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Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport
by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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Henry Frederick Howard, 15th Earl of Arundel, 5th Earl of Surrey and 2nd Earl of Norfolk
by Wenceslaus Hollar
line engraving, mid 17th century
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Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton
by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
after Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland; Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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John Finch, Lord Finch of Fordwich
by Wenceslaus Hollar, after Edward Bower
etching, mid 17th century
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by Wenceslaus Hollar
etching, mid 17th century
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