(b Antwerp, 1565; d The Hague, 29 March 1629). Draughtsman, engraver and painter. He was taught first by his father and then from 1585 by Hendrick Goltzius in Haarlem, where he remained for five years. By 1590–91 de Gheyn II was in Amsterdam, making engravings after his own and other artists’ work (e.g. Abraham Bloemaert and Dirck Barendsz.). There he was visited several times by the humanist Arnout van Buchell [Buchelius]. De Gheyn received his first official commission in 1593—an engraving of the Siege of Geertruitenberg (Hollstein, no. 285)—from the city and board of the Admiralty of Amsterdam. In 1595 he married Eva Stalpaert van der Wiele, a wealthy woman from Mechelen. From 1596 to 1601–2 he lived in Leiden, where he began collaborating with the famous law scholar Hugo de Groot [Grotius], who wrote many of the inscriptions for the artist’s engravings. During this period he also began working for Prince Maurice of Orange. In 1605 de Gheyn was a member of the Guild of St Luke in The Hague, where he remained until his death. Once he had settled in The Hague, de Gheyn’s connections with the House of Orange Nassau were strengthened. Among other commissions, he designed the Prince’s garden in the Buitenhof, which included two grottoes, the earliest of their kind in the Netherlands. After the Prince’s death in 1625, de Gheyn worked for his younger brother, Prince Frederick Henry.

Part of the Gheyn, de family

• Gheyn, Jacques de, II (1565-1629)
  • Engraving, §II, 3(i)(d): Major exponents and their influences, c 1500–c 1600: Goltzius
  • Gheyn, de
  • Haarlem, §2(ii): Artistic community
  • Hague, The, §II, 2: Art life and organization, c 1585–1799
  • Prints, §IV, 2: Publishers
  • collaboration
    • Dolendo
    • Saenredam: (1) Jan Saenredam
  • patrons and collectors
    • Animal subjects, §2: The 17th century
    • Flower painting, §2(i): Early 17th century
  • pupils
    • Visscher, Claes Jansz.
  • teachers
    • Goltzius, Hendrick, §1: Life
  • works
    • Bloemaert: (1) Abraham Bloemaert, §2: Drawings
    • Flower painting, §2(iii): 18th–20th centuries
    • Gheyn, de: (1) Jacques de Gheyn II, §1: Drawings
    • Gheyn, de: (1) Jacques de Gheyn II, §2: Prints
    • Goltzius, Hendrick, §2(i)(a): Drawings: Technique and media
    • Mander, van: (1) Karel van Mander I, §3(i): Drawings
    • Netherlands, the, §III, 4(ii): Painting and graphic arts, c 1550–c 1680: Haarlem
    • Orange Nassau: (2) Maurice, Stadholder and Prince of Orange
    • Tetrode, Willem Danielsz. van
    • Tile, §II, 2: The Netherlands
    • Vanitas, §2: The Netherlands