Coenraed Lauwers

[3] The Flemish artist biographer Cornelis de Bie included a short poem about Lauwers on page 562 of his book of artist biographies, Het Gulden Cabinet, with the remark that from his visits to Paris Lauwers brought back prints by the French engravers François Polly, Robert Nanteuil and others to sell them in his shop.

[7] In Paris he engraved after the designs of Laurent de La Hyre the majority of the images of Christian saints that formed the series Porticus religiosa effigies.

He also became in the same year a member of the "Sodaliteit van de Bejaerde Jongmans", a fraternity for senior bachelors established by the Jesuit order in Antwerp.

[5] He was one of the engravers who collaborated on the Theatrum Pictorium (Theatre of Painting), a book published in the 1660s by David Teniers the Younger for his employer, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.

[12] He made an engraving after one of the frescoes in the series of lunettes painted by Pietro da Cortona in the Sala di Venere of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.

Other printmakers who worked on this series include Cornelis Bloemaert, Albert Clouwet, Jacques Blondeau, Lambert Visscher, Charles de La Haye, Jean Gerardin, François Spierre and Pierre Simon also contributed to this series entitled Heroicae Virtutes Imagines quas eques Petrus Beretinus pinxit Florentiae (Images of heroic deeds painted by the knight Pietro Berrettini of Florence).