Illustration for Johann Christoph Mayer's "History of the Crusades" Format:Enhanced Matte Print Pieter Casteels II (1684-1749) was

Pieter Casteels II (1684-1749) was a Flemish painter and engraver mainly known for his flower pieces

A delicate moving depiction of the curcifixtion and the mouring of Mary Magdelene

as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings

who was also a painter

The speed with which he painted

Illustration for Johann Christoph Mayer's "History of the Crusades" Format:Enhanced Matte Print Pieter Casteels II (1684-1749) wasDaniel Niklaus Chodowiecki was a Polishand later Germanic painter and print maker with Huguenot ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Academy of Art.