Personalities Vorsterman, Lucas

The most outstanding engraver from the XVII century from the workshop of Rubens. Around 1619 or 1620, Vorsterman came to Antwerp, entered the workshop of Rubens and began to engrave. For several years he was the main engraver of his teacher. In 1624 he moved to England, worked for King Charles I. In England he engraved a lot on portraits of van Dyck and Holbein. In 1630 he returned to Antwerp and in the same year became one of van Dyck's engravers, in collaboration with whom he made 28 sheets for his "Iconography". He engraved a large number of portraits, historical paintings, landscapes. Member of the Antwerp guild of St. Luke. Teacher of an outstanding engraver Paul Pontius.