(b Duffel, Brabant, 9 June 1573; d The Hague, bur 25 or 29 Oct 1650). Engraver, etcher, draughtsman and publisher. He trained with Godefroy van Gelder, a goldsmith in Brussels, and then with Jan Wierix, a printmaker in Antwerp. After travelling to Cologne, London and Paris, he was in The Hague by 1597. In that year he was registered in the artists’ guild and obtained his first print privilege for a portrait of Prince Maurits (1597; Hollstein, Hendrik I, no. 77). He was awarded a general privilege by the States General in 1599. He left to live in Amsterdam in 1603 and Leiden in 1604–5, returning to settle in The Hague in 1605.

Part of the Hondius (ii) family

• Hondius (ii), Hendrik, I (1573-1650)
  • Hague, The, §II, 2: Art life and organization, c 1585–1799
  • Hondius (i)
  • Hondius (ii)
  • Hondius (i): (2) Hendrik Hondius `II’
  • Verhaecht , Tobias
  • collaboration
    • Vredeman de Vries, Hans, §2(i): Designs
  • pupils
    • Huygens: (1) Constantijn Huygens (i)
  • works
    • Flower painting, §2(i): Early 17th century
    • Frisius, Simon
    • Netherlands, the, §XVII: Historiography
    • Prints, §II, 1(vi): Subject-matter, before c 1700: Portrait
    • Savery: (1) Jacob Savery I
    • Spranger, Bartholomäus, §2(iii): Work at the court of Rudolf II: Reproductive engravings
    • Stevens, Pieter
    • Vanitas, §2: The Netherlands
    • Velde, van de (i): (2) Jan van de Velde II
    • Wildens, Jan, §1: To 1614