Adriaen Collaert was a Flemish designer and engraver

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

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Biography

The year he was born at Antwerp is not known, but this is determined to be between 1555 and 1565. According to the RKD in 1580 he became wijnmeester of the Guild of St. Luke. The title wijnmeester was reserved for sons of members, and he was the son of Jan Collaert I

Hans Collaert

Hans Collaert was an early Flemish engraver, father of the engravers Hans Collaert II , who married Elisabeth Galle, and Adrian Collaert who married Justa Galle, both daughters of the engraver and publisher Philip Galle...

 and Anna van der Heijden. He married Justa Galle, the daughter of the man he worked for, Philip Galle. He also worked for Gerard de Jode

Gerard de Jode

Gerard de Jode was a cartographer, engraver and publisher who lived and worked in Antwerp during the 16th century. He was born in Nijmegen and died in Antwerp. In 1547 he was admitted to the Guild of St. Luke, and began his work as a publisher/printseller...

 (where he made prints after Maerten de Vos), Eduard Hoeswinckel and Hans van Luyck. Alter having learnt the principles of the art in his own country, he visited Italy for improvement, where he passed some years. On his return to Flanders, he engraved a great number of plates, executed in a neatly finished style, but with a certain degree of dryness. He died at Antwerp in 1618. His drawing is correct, and his heads expressive. He sometimes marked his plates with a cipher.

From 1593-94 he took on pupils and from 1589 he worked for Plantijn Moretus. His pupils were Jan Boel, Quirin Boel (I), Adriaan Boon, Jan Collaert (II), and Abraham van Merlen.

The following are his principal productions:

Subjects from his own designs

• A Man and his Wife, conducted by Death. 1562.
• A Man in Armour, to whom a Woman brings a Child, a Dog, and a Cock.
• The Four Elements; in four plates.
• The Life of Jesus Christ; in thirty-six plates.
• Thirty plates of Birds.
• One hundred and twenty-five plates of Fishes.
• Twenty-four plates; entitled Florilegium ab Hadriano Collaert caelatum, &c.
• The Temptation of St. Anthony.
• St. Apollonia.

Subjects after various masters

• The Twelve Months of the Year; after Josse De Momper
  Joos de Momper
  Joos de Momper the Younger , also known as Josse de Momper, is one of the most important Flemish landscape painters between Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens...
  
  ; the same that Callot
  Jacques Callot
  Jacques Callot was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine . He is an important figure in the development of the old master print...
  
   has engraved.
• The Last Judgment; after J. Stradan.
• St. Hubert; after the same.
• Twelve plates of Horses ; after the same.
• A Hunting and Fishing Party; after the same.
• The Israelitish Women singing the Song of Praise for the Destruction of the Egyptian Host in the Red Sea; after the same.
• A Woman saving her Child from a Lion; after the same.
• Twelve Landscapes; after Hendrik van Cleef
  Hendrick Van Cleve
  Hendrick Van Cleve, the brother of Martin Van Cleve, the elder, and of Willem Van Cleve, the younger, was a native of Antwerp. It is not known under whom he studied; but he went to Italy when young, and returned to his native country a good painter of landscapes. His pictures are distinguished by...
  
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• A set of Hermitesses; after M. de Vos ; engraved conjointly with his son Hans Collaert
  Hans Collaert
  Hans Collaert was an early Flemish engraver, father of the engravers Hans Collaert II , who married Elisabeth Galle, and Adrian Collaert who married Justa Galle, both daughters of the engraver and publisher Philip Galle...
  
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• The Calling of St. Andrew to the Apostleship; after Barocci
  Federico Barocci
  Federico Barocci was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio, which still in northwestern Italian dialects means a two wheel cart drawn by oxen...
  
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• The Repose in Egypt; after H. Goltzius
  Hendrik Goltzius
  Hendrik Goltzius , was a Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He was the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period, or Northern Mannerism, noted for his sophisticated technique and the "exuberance" of his compositions. According to A...
  
  . 1585.
• A set of six plates, called the Annunciations; considered among the best of his works.

External Links

Burial of Jacob at the Birmingham Museum of Art