Biography

He learned drawing and engraving from his father, Pieter de Jode I

Pieter de Jode I

Petrus, or Pieter de Jode I was a Flemish Baroque painter and engraver.-Biography:He learned drawing and engraving first from his father, the map maker Gerard de Jode, and later from Hendrik Goltzius. His engravings of Italian master paintings became a source for Karel van Mander...

 (1570–1634), whose engravings were a source for Karel van Mander. He travelled to Paris with him to make engravings, and on his return he married Justa Galle, the widow of Adriaen Collaert

Adriaen Collaert

Adriaen Collaert , was a Flemish designer and engraver.-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 the daughter of Philip Galle.
He started working for Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next...

 as an engraver for his Iconography series that was published over several decades. For this project he accompanied Van Dyck several times to England.

After the death of Van Dyck, he continued to work on the Iconography series, in collaboration with other engravers employed by the publisher Gillis Hendricx in Antwerp.