Lucas Vorsterman

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Lucas Vorsterman (Zaltbommel, 1595–Antwerp, 1675) was a Baroque engraver. He worked with the artists Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, as well as for patrons such as Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel and Charles I of England.

Around 1617 or 1618 Vorsterman joined Rubens's workshop and became Rubens's primary engraver for several years. Rubens was a demanding employer of engravers, with a very specific idea of the style he wanted: "As he dismissed engraver after engraver, he drove the best one, Lucas Vorsterman, into a nervous breakdown"[1]

In 1624, Vosterman moved to England. He was back in Antwerp around 1630, where he worked closely with Van Dyck, including some of the engraved artists' portraits in the Iconographie project.

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  1. ^ A Hyatt Mayor, Prints and People, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Princeton, 1971, no. 427-32, ISBN 0691003262
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