De nieuwe Schouburg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders en schilderessen: waer in de ...
Johan van Gool's 1751 Dutch dictionary of painters, published in The Hague, gives biographies of Netherlandish artists alongside engraved portraits for art-loving readers and collectors. The engravings are oval and rectangular portrait heads of painters in periwigs and plain coats, some set against curtains, sculpted busts, palettes and brushes, a designer can borrow the framing, the oval cartouches and the tonal crosshatching of 18th-century portrait engraving.
