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(1) Willem Panneels
(b Antwerp, c. 1600; d after 1632). Etcher. He may have begun his apprenticeship with Rubens in 1624–5 and possibly continued to work for the master until 1630, the year he went to Cologne. Panneels is especially known as leader of the ‘Rubens Cantoor’, set up by Rubens in his own house to copy compositions from the master, in drawings and small oil sketches. In 1630–31 he visited Frankfurt am Main, in 1631 Mainz and Baden, where he worked for the Prince-Bishop, and in 1632 he was in Strasbourg. Panneels’s handling of the etching needle and sketchy treatment of the surface of the copperplate have a strong draughtsman-like quality. His prints thus tend to concentrate on the essence of the images. Typical examples are David Slaying the Bear (Hollstein, no. 1), the Triumph of David over Goliath (Hollstein, no. 2), St Sebastian (Hollstein, no. 15), St Agnes (Hollstein, no. 17) and Jupiter and Juno (Hollstein, no. 19). No paintings by him are known.
Part of the Panneels family
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