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HENDRIK HONDIUS PORTRAIT OF MOSTAERT C 1600
Stunning vintage engraving by Hendrik Hondius I, published c. 1600.
Image size measures approximately 198mm x 122mm. Framed, under glass, frame size 9x12 inches.
Signed with H logo on the palette, as seen in detail scan.
The artist’s signature is consistent with other known works by him.
Engravings by Hendrik Hondius I may be found in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Hendrik
Hondius the elder (Hendrik Hondius I)
(1573-c.1649)
Born on 9 June 1573 in Duffel in Brabant. He studied in Brussels with the goldsmith G. van Gelder, and in Antwerp under J. Wierix andi. Vredeman de Vries, with whom he published a treatise on perspective in 1604-5.
In 1597 he was received into the guild in The Hague where he stayed except for short trips to Cologne, Paris and London.
He worked as a draughtsman, publisher and engraver of landscapes, genre scenes, portraits, architectural subjects (Les cinq rangs d'architecture, 1617) and technical treatises (Geometrie, contenant La Theorie et Practique ...à La Fortification, 1616). He is last recorded in The Hague in 1649, when his self-portrait was published in. J. Meyssens' Ikonographie. His son, Willem Hondius (c.1597 1652) was also a draughtsman engraver.
The subject of this engraving is the well known Dutch painter, Gilles Mostaert.
Gillis (Aegidius Sinapius) Mostaert, Flemish painter born in 1534 [died 1598], twin of Frans Mostaert [1534-1560] and descendant of Jan Mostaert [1472-1555]. Gillis Mostaert studied in Antwerp under Crispin van den Broeck and Jan Mandijn who influenced him to adhere to the tradition of Hieronymus Bosch .
Mostaert was enlisted as a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1554-1555. On 28 October 1563 he married Margareta Baes in Saint Walburgakerk, and between 1564 and 1572 six children of theirs were christened in the same church.
From 1575 onwards, and until 1588 (the registers are missing between 1579 and 1584), several more were christened in the Saint Joriskerk. A tax list of 1584 indicates that the painter was then living in a rented house near that church. No named students of Mostaert are recorded in the guild lists, but in 1572 Hendrik Pieters, a young artist who intended to travel to Italy, admitted that he had studied under Mostaert in the latter’s house for more than a year.
Gillis van Coninxloo II was also a student of Mostaert.
Several other artists can also be associated with Mostaert: Cornelis van Dalem, to whom he introduced Bartholomäus Spranger as a student and into whose landscapes he occasionally painted the staffage figures; Peeter Baltens and Crispin van den Broeck, who were godfathers to children of Mostaert in 1571 and 1588.
CONDITION:Very good overall, with traces of thread margin remaining.
The print is matted and framed unarchivally, and tacked down to backing board at the corners.
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