(Peter Vander), an engraver of considerable repute, was born at Paris, and received his instructions in the art from the celebrated Francois de Poilly. He came over into England with Gaspar the painter, about the year 1674; and married the sister of a gentleman of estate in Hertfordshire, named Foster. He was a laborious artist; but the pay he received for his plates being by no means adequate to the time he bestowed upon them, he was reduced to want; and retiring from business, sought an asylum in the house of his brother-in-law. He died at Bradfield, and was buried in the church there, in 1674; leaving his widow in possession of the chief part of his plates, which she disposed of to Brown, a printseller, to great advantage, and left an easy fortune. His chief employment was engraving of portraits; and, according to Virtue's account of this artist, published by the Hon. Mr Walpole, he was the first in England who engraved them on so large a scale. But even the novelty, it seems, added to their merit, could not sufficiently recommend them to support the artist. Like many of Poilly's disciples, his great merit, according to Mr Strutt, consists in the laboured neatness and management of the mechanical part of the art. Freedom, harmony, and chasteness of outline, are by no means the characteristic of his prints. However, though they cannot rank with the superior productions of Edelink or Nantueil, &c. they have their share of merit; and doubtless will be always esteemed in England as preserving the best resemblance of many eminent persons who were living at that time.