Portrait of Frederick de Vries
by GOLTZIUS, Hendrick, Engraving, 360 x 266 mm
This carefully and lovingly rendered engraving represents Frederick de Vries, the son of Goltzius’s friend Dirck de Vries, a draughtsman and painter who worked in Venice between 1590 and 1609. During his visit to Italy Goltzius twice stayed briefly at De Vries’s home.