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(1) Nicolaes Lauwers
(b Antwerp, 27 April 1600; d Antwerp, bur 4 Nov 1652). Engraver, publisher and dealer. He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1619–20 and its dean in 1635. He had many pupils, including Hendrick Snyers and Nicolas Pitau, and ran a very successful print business. Like his contemporary Lucas Vorsterman the elder, Lauwers belonged to the first generation of Rubens’s reproductive engravers, of which he was certainly one of the most talented. His best engravings after Rubens are the Adoration of the Magi (Hollstein, no. 1), the Ecce homo, which was engraved with Schelte à Bolswert with whom he collaborated (H 4), and the Triumph of the New Holy Law (H 15). Lauwers also made engravings after Anthony van Dyck, Gerard Seghers, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Erasmus Quellinus and Federico Barocci. Among the best examples are prints after compositions by Jacob Jordaens, for example Jupiter and Mercury with Philemon and Baucis (H 17). Many copies were probably made in his studio, an activity of which he was accused in 1634.
Part of the Lauwers family
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