Jan Collaert the Elder

The Spanish Fury, after Chrispijn van den Broeck

Jan Collaert the Elder or (I), Hans Collaert the Elder or Johannes Collaert (Brussels, between 1525 and 1530 – Antwerp, October 1580) was a Flemish printmaker, publisher, draftsman, tapestry designer, glass painter and designer and engraver of swords.[1][2] He was the founder of a dynasty of engravers that would play a significant role in establishing Antwerp as one of the leading centres for printmaking in Europe in the second half of the 16th century and the early 17th century.[3]

  1. ^ Jan Collaert (I) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  2. ^ Hermann Warner Williams, Jr., An Unrecorded Masterpiece by Hans Collaert the Elder, In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 70, No. 407 (Feb., 1937), pp. 82-83+87
  3. ^ The Collaert Dynasty at New Hollstein

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