Willem de Passe

Willem de Passe , also: de Pas; van de Passe; Passaeus, Wilhelmus (* around 1598 in Cologne , † around 1637 in London ) was an engraver .

Live and act

Willem was the third son of Crispin de Passe the elder , who trained him to be a copper engraver, and brother of Crispin the younger , Simon and Magdalena de Passe; he was the last artist of the de Passe generation. His first works were published by his father. Willem lived in Utrecht from 1618 to 1620 . He then probably worked first for his brother in France and from there moved to England in 1621 .

Willem de Passe was married to the daughter Elisabeth of the publisher Thomas Jenner , who published Willem's first records in London. On April 6, 1624, at the age of 26, de Passe joined Huguenot Church , which French Calvinists had founded on Threadneedle Street in 1550. He had a son named Crispin (* around April 8, 1624) and a daughter Elisabeth (* around September 25, 1625).

Documents in Utrecht, published by Haverkorn van Rijsewijk (Oud Holland, X 1892, pp.104,106), state that he lived in London in October 1636 and that he died in December 1637.

Works (selection)

• 1610–1620 Passion Angel , one of 10 plates in a series based on the works of his father, by Crispin de Passe the Elder. Ä. relocated.
• 1615–1625 Tactus , a plate of the five senses, ibid.
• 1618 and 1620 Heroologia Anglica by Henry Holland. For this book by the English bookseller and publisher Holland (1583–1650?) He and his sister Magdalena engraved the plates of the illustration:

• 1620 Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
• 1620 John Hawkins
• 1620 Sir Francis Walsingham

• 1622-1623 Generosiss. Henricus Richius Eques Auratus et Custodiae Regis Praefectus, published by Jenner. Oval portrait engraving, edge decorated with pencil and red chalk ornaments.
• 1622 a plate for John Bill
• 1625 last plate

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Jenner

Web links

Commons : Willem van de Passe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• British Museum: Willem de Passe.
• British Museum: Willem de Passe: Passion Angel.
• Willem de Passe: Robertus Deuereus Comes Essexiae for Holland's Heroologica.
• Willem de Passe: Ioannes Hawkins
• Willem de Passe: Sir Francis Walsingham