BOLSWERT, BOETIUS-ADAM, an eminent engraver, born at Bolswert in Friesland, about the year 1580; died in 1634. It is inferred, from his style, that he studied in the school of Blommaert. His principal works are the following:—after Rubens, "The Last Supper," "Resurrection of Lazarus," "The Crucifixion," and "The Judgment of Solomon;" "The Martyrdom of St. Stephen," after Coningloo; "Jesus with Martha and Mary," after Gosiomar; after Blommaert, "The Adoration of the Shepherds," "The Holy Women in the Desert," in twenty plates, four landscapes, and twenty landscapes inscribed O nimium felix, 1616. Bolswert was also the author of a romance entitled The Pilgrimage to Jerusalem.