Jan sadeler engravings near

  • Artist information: also Jan or Joan Sadeler, engraver and draughtsman (1550 Brussels to 1600 Venice), from 1572 member of the guild of engravers in Antwerp.
  • An exceptionally fine 16th Century engraving from the Trophaeum Vitae Solitariae, a series of prints depicting the 'Lives of the Hermits' by the Flemish.
  • Biography: Engraver and publisher, eldest of three brothers (with Aegidius I and Raphael I); originally Antwerp; c.1579 to Cologne, often returning to.
  • Jan Sadeler & Pieter de Witte

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    Subseries 36 - Three engravings by Jan Sadeler with verses in Latin underneath the images

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    GB 249 T-GED/22/4/36

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    Three engravings by Jan Sadeler with verses in Latin underneath the images

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    3 illustrations: black and vit engravings; various sizes

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    Jan (Johannes) Sadeler after various authors.

    Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (Leipzig: Engelmann, E.A. Seemann, 1907-1950) mentions a series of six engravings with emblematic illustrations after verses by Alciatus, numbers 1 and 2 are from this series.

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    Sadeler family

    The Sadeler family were the largest, and probably the most successful of the dynasties of Flemishengravers that were dominant in Northern European printmaking in the later 16th and 17th centuries, as both artists and publishers.[1] As with other dynasties such as the Wierixes and Van de Passe family, the style of family members is very similar, and their work often hard to tell apart in the absence of a signature or date, or evidence of location.[2] Altogether at least ten Sadelers worked as engravers, in the Spanish Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Bohemia and Austria.

    Much of their best work was high quality reproductive prints of contemporary artists such as Bartholomeus Spranger (Aegidius II) or the Venetian Bassano family (Jan I and Rafael I), that were important in spreading the reputation and style of these artists.

    The family

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    The Sadelers were descended from "chasers," engravers of armour, from Aalst. Jan de Saeyelleer o

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