Michael Vandergucht

Michael Vandergucht (née Michiel van der Gucht; c. 1660 – 16 October 1725) was a Flemish engraver and painter who worked for most of his career in England.

[2] Michiel van der Gucht was born in Antwerp, where he became a pupil of Frederik Bouttats the Younger.

[3] Michael Vandergucht died from gout in his house, the Golden Head in Queen Street, Bloomsbury, and was buried in the churchyard of St Giles-in-the-Fields.

[1] He provided many of the engravings for the first complete English translation of Andrea Palladio's I quattro libri dell'architettura published in London in 1715.

Most plates in the publication are reverse-copies of those in the original edition, but with measurements corrected by its editor and publisher, Giacomo Leoni.

Illustration for Shakespeare's play The Tempest for Nicholas Rowe 's Works of Mr. William Shakespear (1709).
" King Charles the 2 d in Disguise rideing before M rs Lane by which he made his Escape; the Lord Wilmor at a distance." from Clarendon's History of the Rebellion (1731 reprint)