Metal Working

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Franz Cleyn was known for his miniature paintings, which demonstrated great attention to detail and the use of jewel-like colour. Cleyn lived in Copenhagen and worked as Court Painter to Christian IV of Denmark, before settling in England soon after the succession of Charles I in 1625. He was principal designer to the Mortlake tapestry works and carried out decorative paintings, some of which still survive at Ham House in Surrey.
Wenceslaus Hollar, draughtsman and etcher, was born in Prague; the son of an official. It is thought he had no formal training. He left Prague at 20 and resided in Stuttgart (1627-29), Strasbourg (1629-30), Frankfurt-am-Main (1631) and Cologne (1632-38), where Abraham Hogenberg published his portraits and views of Prague and the Dutch coast. Thomas Howard, Second Earl of Arundel, met Hollar in Cologne and returned to London with him in 1636. He produced prints of works in the Earl’s collection and married a servant to the Earl’s wife. He moved to Antwerp in 1644, returning in 1651/52. In 1669 he was the official artist on an embassy to Tangier with Lord Henry Howard, which resulted in two series of etchings. He died in Westminster aged 70.

Places

Subjects

hammer, anvil, pincers, furnace, metal-worker, genre, cave, bellows, coat of arms, shield, Greek mythology

Materials & Techniques

etching, coloured etching

Artist

Franz Cleyn (1582 - 1658)
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607 - 1677)

Title

Metal Working

Date

Medium

Coloured etching

Dimensions

height: 30.00 cm, width: 20.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Parker Gallery, January 1973

GAC number

9838