Hendrik Abbé

scanned copy of one of the styles of Hendrik Abbé's signature

Hendrik Abbé was a Flemish painter, engraver and architect.[1]

Life

Abbé was baptized in 1639 in the cathedral at Antwerp. Some prints by him were published in Antwerp in 1670.[1] An edition of Ovid's Metamorpheses, published by Francois Foppens in Brussels in 1677, was partly illustrated with plates by other engravers after drawings by Abbé.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Bryan 1886
  2. ↑ "Metamorphosen". Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg. Retrieved 28 September 2015.

Sources

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Abbe, Hendrik". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.