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Wenceslaus hollar biography of william hill

          'WENCESLAUS HOLLAR - Gentleman born at Prague in the year , was by nature strongly inclined towards the art of the miniature, principally drawing but being.!

          Born in Prague, the capital of Bohemia (in the modern Czech Republic), Hollar forged a career that took him far from his homeland.

          Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hollar, Wenceslaus

          ​HOLLAR, WENCESLAUS (1607–1677), in Bohemian Vaclav Holar, engraver, was born at Prague on 13 July 1607. He was the son of Jan Holar, a lawyer, who held an official appointment in that city, and Margaret, his wife, daughter of David Löw von Löwengrün and Bareyt, a burgher of the same place.

          He was the eldest of the family. There were two other sons. Hollar asserted that he belonged to the Bohemian nobility, his father having received a patent from the Emperor Rudolf in 1600, and having taken the style of Hollar of Prachna.

          The family is now extinct in Bohemia, and no clear traces of it are to be found after 1643, but a house still standing in the Neustadt, Prague, is said to have belonged to them.

          He was an outstanding etcher, illustrator and draughtsman (particularly of.

        1. A contemporary biography of Hollar, plus 4 self-portraits, revealing Hollar's "plural I": Hollar as mirthful, as melancholic, as well-bred gentleman.
        2. 'WENCESLAUS HOLLAR - Gentleman born at Prague in the year , was by nature strongly inclined towards the art of the miniature, principally drawing but being.
        3. Wenceslaus Hollar was born on July 13, , in Prague, Czechia (also referred to as Bohemia), as the eldest of three sons.
        4. Wenceslaus Hollar left Prague for Germany at the age of 20 in He first stayed in Stuttgart, where he got to know other young artists.

          5. It has undergone considerable alterations. The elder Hollar died in 1630, and his wife predeceased him. Wenceslaus seems at first to have been intended by his father for the profession of the law, but his passion for