Schelte a Bolswert

[1] He was born in the town of Bolswert in Friesland around 1586 as the son of Adam Uytema.

[1] Boetius was admitted as a freemaster in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1621.

[1] For the last five years of his life Boetius worked exclusively on engravings after Rubens.

[3] Basan said of his work:The freedom which this excellent artist handled the graver, the picturesque roughness of etching, which he could imitate without any other assisting instrument, and the ability he possessed of distinguishing the different masses of colours, have always been admired by the conoisseurs".

[4] Joseph Strutt, after quoting this passage, adds that Bolswert "drew excellently, and without any manner of his own; for his prints are the exact transcripts of the pictures he engraved from".