Lucas Vorsterman (1595–1675) 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.
Vorsterman was born in Zaltbommel. 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]
Vosterman's son Lucas Vorsterman II was born in 1624, and in the same year the family moved to England for six years.[2] 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. He died in Antwerp. His son also became a printmaker, and both father and son were listed in Cornelis de Bie's book of artists called Het Gulden Cabinet.