Author: Hendrik Hondius I (1573-1650) after Simon Wijnants Frisius (1580-1629)
Title: Antique portrait print engraving | Hendrik Cornelisz. Vroom, published 1610, 1 p.
Description: Portrait of Henrdrik Vroom (1562/163- 1640), three-quarter length, turned to the left, head slightly turned to face the viewer; with moustache and goatee, wearing a doublet with flat collar and a mantle draped around him.Beyond him an opened view on a seascape with ships.Inscribed below: HENRICUS VROOM, HARLEMENSIS PICTOR. Vromius hic multum terrus jac tatus et alto:...Tam bene qui potuit pingere nemo fuit.[NL] Portret ten halven lijve naar links van Hendrik Cornelisz. Vroom. Onder het portret zijn naam en vier regels in het Latijn. Prent uit deel 3 van de serie Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Praecipuae Germaniae Inferioris Effigies. Serie van 72 kunstenaarsportretten vervaardigd door Hendrick Hondius I, Simon Frisius, Andries Jacobsz. Stock en Robert de Baudous. Vroom was schilder van marines, tekenaar en prentkunstenaar, werkzaam te Haarlem; hij was rooms-katholiek. Gegraveerd door Hendrik Hondius I (1573-1650) naar Simon Wijnants Frisius (1580-1629) . Engraving and etching on paper, with small margins, mounted on another sheet of paper; total: 241 x 169 mm; some smudges due to handling; overall in good condition. Hollstein 176, New Hollstein 178; in white cardboard passepartout.

Keywords: Artist portraits|Haarlem|Portraits|The Netherlands|Water