After Karel van Mander.

Beautiful, old, finely lined print, trimmed to the copperline or slightly beyond.
Proof from the Camberlyn Collection, whose mark appears on the reverse.

Hollstein: 9

Lugt: 514

Knight J. CAMBERLYN (1783-1861), officer and art lover, The Hague and Brussels. Prints and drawings.
Knight Joseph-Guillaume-Jean Camberlyn, born in Ghent, embraced a military career and served in the Dutch army from 1815 as an administrative captain, much in favor with King William I. He lived in The Hague for a long time. When the 1830 revolution occurred, he had already left the army four years earlier, retaining his sympathies for the House of Orange. He then settled in his homeland, Brussels (corner of Rue Montagne de-la-Cour), confined himself to voluntary solitude, and devoted himself almost exclusively to his love of prints and paintings. He published various articles, including on Memling and other primitives. He seems to have been friends in The Hague with the great collector Baron Verstolk. In contact with all the principal collectors of Europe, he was accustomed to attending the major sales himself. His collection of prints, begun in 1815 with portraits of Nanteuil, became very rich. Following the wish expressed by Camberlyn in his will, it was Guichardot who wrote the catalogue for his sale after his death, an important catalogue of around 4000 numbers of prints (nearly 800 different engravers, 160 rare pieces by 82 anonymous masters) and 391 nos of drawings.