Jan Collaert II or Hans Collaert II (c. 1561 in

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– in or after 1620 in Antwerp) was a Flemish engraver and printmaker working in Antwerp around the turn of the 17th century. Collaert also published under the name Jan Baptist Collaert.

Life

Jan Collaert was the son of Anna van der Heijde and

Jan Collart I Jan Collaert the Elder or (I), Hans Collaert the Elder or Johannes Collaert (City of Brussels, Brussels, between 1525 and 1530 – Antwerp, October 1580) was a Southern Netherlands, Flemish printmaker, publisher, draftsman, tapestry designer, gl ...

and the brother of

Adriaen Collaert Adriaen Collaert (c. 1560 – 29 June 1618) was a Flemish designer and engraver. Biography He was born in Antwerp between 1555 and 1565.

.Jan Collaert (II)
at the

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He trained under his brother Adriaen as well as with leading Antwerp engravers

Philip Galle Philip (or Philips) Galle (1537 – March 1612) was a Dutch publisher, best known for publishing old master prints, which he also produced as designer and engraver. He is especially known for his reproductive engravings of paintings. Life Galle ...

and

Gerard de Jode Gerard de Jode (also known as Petrus de Jode; – 5 February 1591) was a Netherlandish cartographer, engraver, and publisher who lived and worked in Antwerp. In 1547, De Jode was admitted to the Guild of St. Luke, and began his work as ...

. He became member of the Antwerp

Guild of Saint Luke The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was iden ...

in 1585 and was the Guild's dean in 1612. From 1580 through his death c. 1620, Collaert and his brother were both employed by Philip Galle, one of the most prolific print publishers in Europe during the late sixteenth century. The brothers both married a daughter of Galle. Jan married in the late 1590s with Elisabeth Galle, after he became a widower of Elisabeth Firens, whom he had married in 1595. The last entry on Jan Collaert II in the Guild's records dates from the yearbook 1620/21. His pupils included Barbara van den Broeck and Antony van der Does.

Work

Engravers of the period often worked from drawings done by a different artist and many of both the Collaert brothers' etchings are recorded as being "after Phillip Gale". Another contemporary draughtsman who provided source material was

Maerten de Vos Maerten de Vos, Maerten de Vos the Elder or Marten de Vos (1532 – 4 December 1603)Maerten de Vos
at the

, a Flemish painter in the Mannerist tradition. De Vos was the author of approximately 1600 drawings that later were made into prints. Collaert also made a series of prints after de Vos' drawings. The series of twenty illustrations- plus a title page- depicting Biblical characters engaged in heroic acts were completed between 1590 and 1595 in association with Cornelis van Kiel, a Dutch lexicographer and writer, for his Latin text ''Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti (The Celebrated Women of the Old Testament)''. The engravings, "clearly Mannerist in inspiration"Spaightwood 2009 are reminiscent of

Sandro Botticelli Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi ( – May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli ( ; ) or simply known as Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 1 ...

's work, detailed portrayals of Rubenesque figures with tiny heads and expressive hands. He also produced book illustrations for Antwerp publishing house Plantin Moretus.

References

Bibliography

*Hollstein, F W H (Amsterdam, 1993). "The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700",

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Further reading on the Collaert dynasty