Hillebrand van der Aa

Hillebrand van der Aa (* 1659 or 1660 in Leiden ; † around 1721 [before November 1722] in East India ) was a Dutch engraver and draftsman.

Life

Hillebrand van der Aa came from a Dutch family of engravers and publishers. His father, Boudewijn Pietersz. van der Aa , worked as a stone sculptor and, besides Hillebrand, had two other sons, Boudewijn and Pieter . Hillebrand's mother was called Annetje Poortemuller .

At first Hillebrand van der Aa also practiced his father's profession as a student. Two marriages of Van der Aas are attested for 1683 and the following year (on May 15, 1683 with Maria Radde and on June 23, 1684 with Catharina Oesinger ). On July 16, 1698, he enrolled in the registry of the University of Leiden as a Caelator . Then there are mentions of him in 1706 when he was Hoofdman and Plaatsnijder of the guild there in Leiden . The next year he paid him three guilders for sold engravings. In later years he chose East India as his place of residence, where he died around 1721. The amount of his inheritance can be seen from a bill of exchange worth a good 60 guilders, which the orphan's chamber in Batavia sent in November 1722. Of his three children, Balduinus (* around 1688), who worked as a Lutheran pastor in Leiden, is particularly worth mentioning.

Van der Aa worked in Leiden as a not particularly distinguished engraver, probably only for the publishing house of his brothers Boudewijn and Pieter. Almost all of his works do not have a signature. Among other things, he created the title page of the edition of the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam organized by his brother Pieter 1703–1706, as well as the template for the representation of a statue by Daniel Stoopendael of the same humanist in Amsterdam . He also designed the title page for Les Delices de l'Italie (1706). He also made twelve sheets with portraits of the Visconti family and a series of 71 sheets of views of the Rhine , with prospectuses of the neighboring cities, the Hague and Amsterdam. Another work by van der Aas is a portrait engraving of Archbishop Ottone Visconti of Milan, which, like the aforementioned model of the Erasmus statue, was designed for the series Principium et illustrium Virorum Imagines .

literature

• T. van Westrheene and W. Schmidt: Aa, Hillebrand van der , in: Julius Meyer (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Volume 1, 1872, p. 1.
• Ernst Wilhelm Moes: Aa, Hillebrand van der . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 1 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ). (Left column below).
• Moes: Aa, Hillebrand van der , in: Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), Volume 1, 1911, Col. 4.
• Aa, Hillebrand van der . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 1.