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Famous and very rare suite of 76 portraits of the delegates and negotiators of the Westphalian Peace Treaty in 1648

[HULLE, Anselmus].
Celeberrimi legati ad pacificandum Christiani nominis orbem, legati ad Monasterium et Osnabrugas ex omni pene gentium nationumque genera missi. Ad vivum Anselmi v. Hulle penicillo expressi eiusque cura et aere per ingeniores huius aevi sculptores caelo representati.

With 76 magnificent portraits (ca. 30 x 20 cm) in oval with coat of arms and mostly with Latin motto circumscribed and Latin poem underneath, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2) -2 are unsigned -, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. The portraits are cut out and pasted to the leaves of an album measuring 34.8 x 23 cm.

With 76 magnificent portraits (ca. 30 x 20 cm) in oval with coat of arms and mostly with Latin motto circumscribed and Latin poem underneath, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2) -2 are unsigned -, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. The portraits are cut out and pasted to the leaves of an album measuring 34.8 x 23 cm.

With 76 magnificent portraits (ca. 30 x 20 cm) in oval with coat of arms and mostly with Latin motto circumscribed and Latin poem underneath, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2) -2 are unsigned -, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. The portraits are cut out and pasted to the leaves of an album measuring 34.8 x 23 cm.

With 76 magnificent portraits (ca. 30 x 20 cm) in oval with coat of arms and mostly with Latin motto circumscribed and Latin poem underneath, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2) -2 are unsigned -, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. The portraits are cut out and pasted to the leaves of an album measuring 34.8 x 23 cm.

With 76 magnificent portraits (ca. 30 x 20 cm) in oval with coat of arms and mostly with Latin motto circumscribed and Latin poem underneath, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2) -2 are unsigned -, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. The portraits are cut out and pasted to the leaves of an album measuring 34.8 x 23 cm.



[Antwerp, Daniel Middeler, ca. 1649]. Folio. Contemporary mottled and gold-tooled calf, g.e. With 76 magnificent portraits (ca. 30 x 20 cm) in oval with coat of arms and mostly with Latin motto circumscribed and Latin poem underneath, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2) -2 are unsigned -, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. The portraits are cut out and pasted to the leaves of an album measuring 34.8 x 23 cm. [76] ll.

Second edition of a famous, albeit very rare suite of portraits, containing 76 beautifully engraved portraits of the ambassadors, legates and negotiators present at Münster to sign the famous Westphalian Peace Treaty in 1648.
It was the Dutch Stadholder Frederick Henry himself who gave his court painter Anselmus Hulle (or Hebbelynch; ca. 1601-1674) the commission to portray all the delegates at Münster. Hulle did so during the years 1647 and 1648 and the commission made him famous. In the 40's he also painted a series of equestrian portraits of the House of Orange (William of Orange, his three sons Maurice, Frederick Henry and Philip William and his grandson William II), all still present in the former Royal Palace in Amsterdam. Some of the original paintings of the delegates are in Museums, for instance the portrait of Godert van Reede in the Centraal Museum at Utrecht; others are still in private collections of the noble families of the delegates in Germany and elsewhere.
Apparently shortly afterwards the Antwerp printer Daniel Middeler planned an edition of engraved copies of Hulle's paintings to be made by the greatest artists living and working in Antwerp at the time. The first edition of these gorgeous portraits was published already in 1648 in Antwerp, under the title Pacis antesignani sive icones legatorum ..., containing, however, only 35 portraits. In the same and following years issues were published with an increasingly greater number of plates. In 1696 for instance the series was published under the title Pacificatores orbis Christini, sive icones principum et legatorum, qui Monasterii atque Osnabrugae pacem Europae reconciliarunt ... (Rotterdam, P. van der Slaart) with no less than 131 portraits, partly by later artists, with further editions in 1697 and 1717, the latter in Amsterdam by David Mortiers. That is why it is virtually impossible to say whether a copy of this work is complete or not.

Our copy definitely belongs to the first issue of the second edition (dated by Van Someren '1648', nr. 182a), with 31 plates dated '1649' (23 are dated '1648'; 22 are undated). Van Someren divides this second edition in three issues, the first of which he saw represented in only one copy - in the University Library Ghent - containing 77 plates. That are exactly the same plates as in our copy; only the portrait of Alexander Erskein is not present (see Van Someren, nr. 182a and the list under nr. 185 on p. 175-8). So the plates are all in an early state: the portraits of Clant, Cuyermans, Bart. van Gent, W. Ripperda and S. Rosenhage are still without a motto in the oval border as in the first edition, while the motto in the oval border of the portrait of Godert van Reede is engraved, as in the first (and later) issue(s) of the second edition, and as has the portrait of J. de Knuyt its Latin poem of 8 lines underneath for the first time in this issue.
48 of the portraits are made by the two most famous engravers of the time around the middle of the seventeenth century: 25 by Petrus de Jode II (Antwerp 1601 - 1664 probably in England; Hollstein IX, p. 220, nrs. 385-515: not specified); and 23 by Cornelis Galle Jr. (1615 - Antwerp - 1678; Hollstein VII, p. 71, nrs. 219-308: not specified, but mentioning a second edition of 1649 with 76 plates (!?)); further there are 10 portraits by Paul Pontius (1603 - Antwerp - 1658), a pupil of Lucas Vorsterman the Elder (Hollstein XVII, p. 198, nrs. 141-148, 150-151); 7 by Mattheus Borrekens (1615 - Antwerp - 1670), a pupil of Petrus de Jode II (Hollstein III, p. 111, nrs. 27-32 and the portrait of Johannes Georg à Merckelbach: not in Hollstein); 5 by Conrad Waumans (1619 - Antwerp - after 1675), a pupil of Paul Pontius (Hollstein LI, p. 141-147, nrs. 53-4, 56, 59-60: all in their first state and all reproduced); 2 by Anthonius van der Does (1609 - Antwerp - 1680), a pupil of Hans Collaert the Younger (Hollstein V, p. 246-7, nrs. 20 and 30 in first states); 2 by Pieter de Bailliu (1613 - Antwerp - 1660; cf. Hollstein I, p. 76, 101); and 2 without the name of an engraver: the portrait of Franciscus de Andrada, ambassador of the Portuguese King, and of Peregrinus Carlenus Amerinus, delegate of the Duke of Gelre.

All plates are in a pristine condition; copy without the title and lvs. with printed text; with the book-plate of De Lint and the famous antiquarian bookseller R.W.P. de Vries at Amsterdam. On the fourth fly-leaf a title is written in a late 17th-century hand: "Naeukeurige, Levendige Afbeelding van alle de Gevolmagtigden der Onderscheide Mogentheden tot het Sluiten van de Algemeene Vrede te Munster in den Jare 1648."- (Leather of the binding damaged, top and tail of spine damaged; sm. tear in one of the plates).
Hollstein(Dutch & Flemish) I, p. 76, 101; III, p. 111, nrs. 27-32; V, p. 246-7, nrs. 20 and 30; VII, p. 71, nrs. 219-308; IX, p. 220, nrs. 385-515; XVII, p. 198, nrs. 141-8, 150-1; LI, p. 141-7, nrs. 53-4, 56, 59-60; Van Someren 182a, with the complete list of all the portraits on p. 175-78; Thieme Becker XVIII, p.109.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Germany  History  Netherlands  Portraits 

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