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Goes, Marinus [Marin] Robyn van der
(b ?Goes, ?1599; d Antwerp, bur 27 April 1639). Flemish engraver. In 1630–31 he was a pupil of Lucas Vorsterman (i), at the same time as Hans Witdoeck, and in 1632–3 he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St Luke. He took on three pupils in 1633–4—Alexander Goubauw, Antonius Coolberger and Gaspard Leemans—and married in Antwerp in 1634. There are 18 prints known by van der Goes, four based on works by Rubens. Van der Goes also made engravings after Jacob Jordaens, Adriaen Brouwer, Cornelis Saftleven, Hendrick Martensz. Sorgh and Théodore van Thulden. He always signed his prints Marinus. His engravings after Rubens are the Flight into Egypt (Hollstein, no. 4; based on a drawing in London, BM), the Miraculous Deeds of St Francis Xavier (Hollstein, no. 7; based on a painting in Vienna, Ksthist. Mus.), the Miracles of St Ignatius Loyola (Hollstein, no. 9; based on a painting also in Vienna, Ksthist. Mus.) and the frontispiece (Hollstein, no. 20; based on a sketch in London, V&A) for El memorable y glorioso viaje del Infante Cardenal Don Fernando de Austria by Diego de Aedo y Gallart (Antwerp, 1635). For the same edition van der Goes engraved an equestrian portrait of the Infante after Jan van den Hoecke (who may have been a pupil of Rubens). Van der Goes successfully captured the nocturnal atmosphere of the Flight into Egypt, something that Rubens had, in turn, borrowed from Elsheimer. In the scenes with SS Francis Xavier and Ignatius Loyola, the artist’s masterly engraving technique brings out the full character of Rubens’s work.
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