Flemish, 16th – 17th century, male.
Born c. 1527, in Brussels; died 1612, in Rome.
Engraver, draughtsman, print publisher.
Flemish School.
Nicolaus van Aelst learned drawing and engraving in his home town of Brussels, then went to Rome where he set up a thriving trade in prints. This was his main activity, although he continued to engrave with a burin. It should be noted, however, that he was only the printer of the engraving of the statue of Henry II, the original artist being Tempesta....
17th century, male.
Print publisher, engraver (?).
Active in Cologne and, according to Heinecken, in Strasbourg.
Dutch, 17th century, male.
Painter, publisher.
Johan Amelisz. was a member of the Utrecht painters' guild in 1616-1617. He was also a publisher.
Swiss family of collectors of German origin. Johannes Amerbach (b ?Amorbach, c. 1450; d Basle, Dec 25, 1513) gained his MA at the Sorbonne, Paris, and trained as a printer in Nuremberg and Venice. In 1482 he settled in Basle, where in 1484 he founded his own print shop and publishing house. He was in close contact with Albrecht Dürer during the latter’s stay in Basle (1491–2). Apart from works of art for personal use, for example ornamental daggers, he probably owned graphic and print blocks for woodcut illustrations by Dürer. Johannes’s son, Bonifacius Amerbach (b Basle, 11 Oct 1495; d Basle, 24 April 1562), a lawyer, professor at the University of Basle and syndic of the Basle council, was the heir and executor of Erasmus and owned paintings by the Holbein family and important gold and silver pieces, for example the well-known ‘...
German, 17th century, male.
Born in Nuremberg.
Draughtsman, print publisher.
Known for a series of 12 ornamental pieces.
[Pieter]
(b Antwerp, c. 1526–28; d Antwerp, 1584).
South Netherlandish painter, draughtsman, engraver and publisher. He was the son of the sculptor Balten Janszoon de Costere (fl 1524). In 1550 he became a master in the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp and in 1569 its dean. Primarily on the authority of van Mander, Baltens was long considered to be an inferior imitator of Bruegel family, §1 the elder. Baltens’s best-known work, the signed St Martin’s Day Kermis (e.g. versions Amsterdam, Rijksmus.; Antwerp, Kon. Mus. S. Kst.), was formerly thought to be a free copy after Bruegel’s treatment of the subject, known through an engraving and the Gift of St Martin, a fragment on cloth (Vienna, Ksthist. Mus.). The relationship between Baltens and Bruegel is, however, more complicated. In 1551 they collaborated on an altarpiece (destr.) for the Mechelen Glovemakers. Baltens’s other works, for example the Ecce homo (Antwerp, Kon. Acad. S. Kst.), reveal that the two artists were closely associated: a group from the ...
[Baemler, JohannBemler, Hans]
(fl 1453–1504).
German illuminator and printer. He is listed in the Augsburg tax rolls from 1453 as a scribe and from 1477 as a printer. Bämler belonged to the guild of painters, glassmakers, woodcut-makers and goldbeaters, eventually achieving the rank of Zwollfer (director). Examples of his youthful work are two signed miniatures dated 1457 (New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib., MS. M.45) and a signed historiated initial on a detached Antiphonal leaf (Philadelphia, PA, Free Lib., Lewis M 67:3). Between 1466 and 1468 he rubricated and decorated with calligraphic and painted ornament four books printed in Strasbourg: a Latin Bible (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bib., Bibel-S.2°155), a copy of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologica (Munich, Bayer Staatsbib., 2° Inc. s.a.1146a) and two copies of St Augustine’s City of God (Chantilly, Mus. Condé, XXII.D.11, and Manchester, John Rylands U. Lib., no. 3218, Inc. 3A8).
Bämler’s knowledge of printing was probably acquired in Augsburg, in the shop of ...
French, 17th century, male.
Active in Paris between 1635 and 1672.
Engraver, print publisher.
Baudemont is known to have engraved The Burning Bush, after Sébastien Bourdon.
Flemish, 16th – 17th century, male.
Born c. 1575, in Brussels; died c. 1656.
Painter, engraver, print publisher. Seascapes, still-lifes.
Flemish School.
Robert Willemsz. Baudous lived in Amsterdam from 1591. In the first half of the 17th century he was working in Brussels. He was still alive in ...
French, 17th century, male.
Active in Rome during the second half of the 17th century.
Engraver, print publisher.
His works include: St Anthony with the Infant Jesus; St Philip Neri, after Gio Giminiani; and Romulus and Remus Set Adrift on the Tiber, after Lazzaro Baldi....
(b Bergamo, c. 1458; fl Venice, 1543).
Italian printer and publisher of books and prints. He settled in Venice c. 1480 and in 1483 was running a bookshop at the sign of St Jerome in the Merceria and published the Supplementum chronicarum of Jacobus Philippus Foresti (Bergomensis; 1434–1520). Between then and 1543, the year of the publication of Girolamo Savonarola’s Trattato dell’amor di Gesù, he published (alone or with other publishers) over 100 texts of Classical and contemporary authors, treatises on law and medicine, as well as several books of a religious nature, mostly in Latin. Among the most famous illustrated works are those of Dante Alighieri (1491) and Ovid (1493–4). After c. 1500 Benalio’s publishing activity declined (c. 40 post-1500 publications are known), perhaps pushed into second place by his new interest, the publication and marketing of prints. For this purpose he opened a branch at Padua, entrusting its management to a relative, ...
French, 17th century, male.
Active in Paris.
Died June 1667.
Engraver, print publisher.
He is known for allegories, fantasies and portraits, most notably of Louis XIV and Philip of Orléans. He may also be the artist known as N. Bercy.
Italian family of typographers, engravers, publishers and print dealers. Members of the family were active in Venice and Padua in the 16th century and the early 17th. Most notable among them were Luca Bertelli (fl Venice, c. 1560; fl Padua, 1594), Orazio Bertelli (fl Venice, 1562–88), who was possibly Luca’s brother, and Ferdinando (Ferrando, Ferrante) Bertelli (fl Venice, 1561–72). It is difficult to determine the extent of Luca Bertelli’s participation in the execution of the prints he published; they were mainly historical, religious and mythological. Orazio Bertelli probably encouraged Agostino Carracci’s visit to Venice in 1582. Orazio’s engravings included the works of Federico Barocci, Domenico Tibaldi and Paolo Veronese, notably a Pietà (De Grazia, p. 125, no. 102). Ferdinando Bertelli was best known for his publication of a vast number of maps, by both Italian and foreign cartographers.
DBI; Thieme–Becker D. De Grazia: Le stampe dei Carracci...Italian, 16th – 17th century, male.
Active at the end of the 16th and at the beginning of the 17th century.
Engraver, print publisher.
Son of Pietro Bertelli, Francesco was active in Padua (Veneto). The Triumph of Bacchus, Raph. Urb. In. Romae is signed: fran.s ber. s 1594...
French, 17th century, male.
Active in Paris towards the middle of the 17th century.
Engraver, print publisher.
Pierre Bertrand was one of the engravers from the rue St-Jacques in Paris - a group of artists who were also printers, publishers and distributors. During the 17th century they made satirical engravings, known at the time as 'popular' engravings....
French, 17th century, male.
Active in Paris at the beginning of the 17th century.
Engraver, print publisher.
He engraved the portrait of Jan de Oldenbarnevelt, after Mich-J. von Mierevelt.
German, 17th century, male.
Active in Paris.
Probably of German origin.
Engraver, print publisher.
Leblanc mentions the following works by C. Biermann: The Ribbon Seller; The Linen Seller.
German, 17th century, male.
Active in Germany.
Draughtsman, engraver (burin), print publisher. Ornaments, decorative designs, frontispieces.
Paul Birckenhultz's engravings included ornamental plates, frontispieces and various works for silver- and goldsmiths. Mention should also be made of an engraving depicting The Four Elements.
Dutch, 17th century, male.
Born 1596, in Amsterdam; died December 1673, in Amsterdam.
Cartographer, geographer, print publisher.
Joannes Blaeu studied law at the university of Leiden, and then collaborated with his brother Cornelius (born c. 1610, died between 1644 and 1648) on the cartographical task embarked on by his father Willem Blaeu. In ...
Dutch, 16th – 17th century, male.
Born 1571, in Alkmaar; died 1638, in Amsterdam.
Cartographer, geographer, publisher.
The father of Joannes Blaeu, Wilhelm was a pupil of the astronomer Tycho Brahé in Uraniborg. He was to become the most important European cartographer, following in the steps of Gerhard Mercator. Blaeu's most famous work is the encyclopedic atlas of the known world in six volumes ...
