Hendrik van der Borcht the elder

Hendrik van der Borcht the Elder (1583, Brussels - 26 July 1651, Frankfurt [ [http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/(0cyr2eqenrhabgid3gey2yzp)/detail.aspx?parentpriref=10695 Borcht, Hendrik (I) van der at the Netherlands Institute for Art History] ] ) was a Flemish engraver and still life painter of flowers and fruit, who was mainly active in Germany.

Troubles in the Low Countries obliged his family to move from Brussels to Germany in 1586. By 1598 they had settled at Frankenthal, where he became a pupil of Gillis van Valkenborch. Between 1604 and 1610 he was in Italy, probably in Rome. In 1627 he settled in Frankfurt. The Earl of Arundel, passing through Frankfurt, became the patron of his son, Hendrik the Younger.

He made the following etchings:
*"Virgin and child" (1637) after Parmigianino
*"Dead Christ supported by Joseph of Arimathea" (1645) after a drawing by Parmigianino of a Raphael
*"Abraham at Table with the Angels" after Ludovico Carracci
*"Infant Jesus embracing St. John" from Guido Reni's print of Agostino Carracci
*"Apollo and Cupid" after Perino del Vaga
*"Entry of Frederick, Elector Palatine, with Elizabeth, Princess Royal of England, his Consort, into Frankenthal" in 22 plates (1613)

References

*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume II L-Z)| editor = Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 616| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1| authorlink=