Johann Jakob Frey the Elder (1681–1752)

• Was a Swiss engraver.

• Frey was born in Lucerne.

• After learning the principles of design he went, when he was twenty-two years of age, to Rome.

• There he received some instruction from Arnold van Westerhout.
• Afterwards Frey was studying in the school of Carlo Maratti.
• His progress was rapid, and he was soon regarded as one of the ablest artists in Rome.
• He etched his plates with spirit, and worked over the etching with a firm and masterly hand.
• He died at Rome, aged 70. 

• His prints, which exceed the number of one hundred, are generally of a very large size.

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