(Gerard), a famous engraver, born at Antwerp, where he was instructed in drawing and engraving. He settled at Paris, in the reign of Lewis XIV. who made him his engraver in ordinary. Edelinck was also counsellor in the Royal Academy of Painting. His print of the Holy Family, copied from Raphael, those of Alexander visiting the family of Darius, and the Penitent Magdalen, from le Brun, are particularly admired. His works are particularly esteemed for the neatness of the engraving, the brilliant cast, and the prodigious ease apparent in the execution; and to this facility is owing the great number of plates we have of his, among which are excellent portraits of a great number of illustrious men of his time. He died in 1707, in an advanced age, at the Hotel Royal at the Gobelins, where he had an apartment. He had a brother named John, who was a skilful engraver, but died young.