Author: Paulus Pontius (1603-1658), Maarten van den Enden (1605-1673), after Jan Lievens (1607-1674)
Title: [Antique portrait print, engraving, 1630] Portrait of Daniel Seghers, published 1630, 1 p.
Description: Half-length portrait of Daniel Seghers, in profile to the right, wearing a robe and a mantle, holding a sheet of paper.He was a flower painter and Jesuit. An open window overlooking the woods and a rose bush behind his back, on the left.Titled below: 'DANIEL SEGERS E SOCIETATE IESV. Arte sua haud similes flores pinxisset Apelles, Quos toto acceptos DANIEL orbae dedit.'Signed: 'Ioannes Lyvyus pinxit / Paulus Pontius sculpsit / Martinus vanden Enden excud.'Daniël Seghers was een Brabantse bloemenschilder. Dichters als Vondel en Constantijn Huygens hebben zijn werk bezongen. Hij had veel navolgers. Engraving on paper, with small margins, total: 274 x 208 mm; state II/2; some light smudges, otherwise in very good condition; Hollstein 126, Wurzbach 122, Drug 19263, van Someren 5086.

Keywords: Artist portraits|Male|Old Master Prints