Boetius Adamsz Bolswert

Place: Bolsward

Born: 1580

Death: 1633

Biography:

Boetius à Bolswert (also Boetius Adamsz Bolswert, Bodius c. 1585, – late 1633) was a renowned copper-plate engraving engraver of Friesland origin. In his time the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens called forth new endeavours by engravers to imitate or reproduce the breadth, density of mass and dynamic illumination of those works. Boetius Bolswert was ...