Jan Collaert the Elder or (I), Hans Collaert the Elder or Johannes Collaert (

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, between 1525 and 1530 –

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, October 1580) was a

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, publisher, draftsman, tapestry designer, glass painter and designer and engraver of swords.Jan Collaert (I)
at the

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Hermann Warner Williams, Jr., ''An Unrecorded Masterpiece by Hans Collaert the Elder'', In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 70, No. 407 (Feb., 1937), pp. 82-83+87 He was the founder of a dynasty of engravers that would play a significant role in establishing Antwerp as one of the leading centres for printmaking in Europe in the second half of the 16th century and the early 17th century.The Collaert Dynasty
at New Hollstein

Life

Jan Collaert the Elder was born in Brussels as the son of Jannen (Jan) Collaert. His father was a designer and painter of cartoons for tapestries. Jan likely trained with his father. After a career as a draftsman producing designs for glass makers, tapestry makers and embroiderers in Brussels, he moved sometime before 1563 to Antwerp where he created designs for the local tapestry workshops. He also provided designs for jewelry.Hans Collaert I
at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco His first dated print was published by

Hieronymous Cock Hieronymus Cock, or Hieronymus Wellens de Cock (1518 – 3 October 1570) was a Flemish painter and etcher as well as a publisher and distributor of prints.

(1518-1570) in 1555. Collaert engraved plates to the designs by other artists for several print publishers in Antwerp during the 1570s. He married Anna van der Heyden, with whom he had four children: Adriaen (c. 1555/65 - 1618).,Adriaen Collaert
at the

Hansken (Jan or Hans) (1561 - 1620/1628),Jan Collaert (II)
at the

Tanneken and Susanna. The sons would later work in the workshop of Philip Galle and marry Galle's daughters. The workshops of the Collaert and Galle families were close together and their works are hard to distinguish. He died in Antwerp in October 1580.

Work

Collaert was known for his engravings after designs by contemporary artists, usually from the Northern Renaissance. Collaert engraved a sword that was formerly in the collection formed in the nineteenth century by

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and is now in the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin.Schwert, Inventarnr. W 564
at the Deutsches Historisches Museum site The sword blade was made by Damiano de Nerve between 1540 and 1581 and etched by Collaert after his own design. The signature IAN . COLLART appears in one of the figures engraved on the blade. The blade is etched with representations of the Planets on one side and Virtues on the other. The figures are in a vertical row.

Selected works

He left many works including: * ''Life of Saint Francis'', 16 prints * ''Views of Brussels and its surroundings'', after

Hans Bol Hans Bol or Jan Bol (16 December 1534 – 20 November 1593), was a Flemish-Belgian painter, print artist, miniaturist painter and draftsman.Jacob Grimmer, 24 prints, published before 1580 * ''Last Judgment'', folio *''Monilium, Bullarum, Inauriumque Artificiosissimae Icones'', 10 prints, 1581 *''The Dead Christ in his Mother's Lap'' *''Marcus Curtius'' *''Moses Striking the Rock, and The Resurrection of Lazarus'', after

Lambert Lombard Lambert Lombard (c. 1505 – August 1566) was a Renaissance painter, architect and theorist for the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. During his career he worked for Jan Gossaert in Middelburg and trained Frans Floris. Biography Lombard was bo ...

*''The Fathers of the Desert'' *''Biblia Sacra and the History of the Church'', after Rubens.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Collaert, 1 Jan 1520s births 1580 deaths 16th-century engravers Flemish engravers Flemish Renaissance painters Flemish publishers Flemish tapestry artists Artists from Brussels Artists from Antwerp