Pieter van der Heyden

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Pieter van der Heyden (* around 1530 in Antwerp , † after 1572 in Berchem / Antwerp) was a Flemish engraver who was accepted as a master in the Antwerp St. Luke's Guild in 1555 . He made copper engravings for the publisher Hieronymus Cock based on templates from Hieronymus Bosch , Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä. ' Frans Floris ', Hans Bols and Lambert Lombards .

Works

  • Clash of Purses and Chests (1558)

  • De blind suffer de blind (The blind leads the blind, 1561)

  • Vastenavond (Carnival, 1567)

  • The blue Schuyte (1559)

  • Pretmakers in een mossel op zee (1562)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography in the Web Gallery of Art (English) accessed on December 9, 2012

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Heyden, Pieter van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish engraver
DATE OF BIRTH around 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH after 1572
Place of death Berchem (Antwerp)