1700 c Portrait of the engraver Jan Luyken by A. Houbraken

Engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper. 

Sheet size: 22.3 x 17 cm

No to be confused with the smaller format engraved portrait that was also published by C. Van der Sys.

Johannes or Jan Luyken (16 April 1649 – 5 April 1712) was a Dutch poet, illustrator, and engraver.

Luyken illustrated the 1685 edition of the Martyrs Mirror with 104 copper etchings. Thirty of these plates survive and were part of The Mirror of the Martyrs exhibit.

He also published Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") in 1694, which contains numerous engravings of 17th-century trades by Luiken and his son Caspar (Caspaares).