Inventor:
MAARTEN VAN
HEEMSKERCK (
1498 - 1574)
Painter and
print designer;
worked in
Haarlem and
Italy. Born in
Heemskerck; son
of a farmer.
Trained in
Haarlem under
Jan van Scorel;
in Italy
1532-6/7; later
career in
Haarlem, where
one of the
richest
citizens.
Prolific
designer of
compositions for
prints, almost
all made by
others. Artists
who engraved
after his
designs include
Dirk Coornhert
(c.1547-59),
Philips Galle
(from 1559),
Cornelis Bos,
Theodoor de Bry
Publisher:
THEODOR GALLE (1571 - 1633)
He is known as one of the most brilliant engravers of his time. He worked in Antwerp for Rubens at the time the engraving as a whole, and the Antwerp Baroque book particularly took a very high flight. The works composed in this period where pure artistic and of enormous quality. T.Galle made between 1613 and 1622 the engravings after Rubens design drawings. He was married to Catharine, the daughter of Jan Moretus and Marina Plantijn.