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EDELINCK, GERARD (1649-1707) , Flemish copper- plate
long in reaching the limits of his master's attainments; and then he went to Paris to improve himself under the teaching of De Poilly. This master likewise had soon done all he could to help him onwards, and Edelinck ultimately took the first rank among line engravers. His excellence was generally acknowledged; and having become known to Louis XIV. he was appointed, on the recommendation of Le Brun, teacher at the academy
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Edelinck stands above and apart from his predecessors and contemporaries in that he excelled, not in some one respect, but in all respects,that while one engraver attained excellence in correct form, and another in rendering light and shade, and others in giving colour to their prints and the texture of surfaces, he, as supreme master of the burin, possessed and displayed all these separate
lozenge shape. Among his most famous works are a " Holy Family," after Raphael; a " Penitent Magdalene," after Charles le Brun; " Alexander at the Tent of Darius," after Le Brun; a " Combat of Four Knights," after Leonardo da Vinci; " Christ surrounded with Angels "; " St Louis praying "; and " St Charles Borromeo
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