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(2) Simon (van) de Passe
(b Cologne, ?1595; d Copenhagen, 6 May 1647). Engraver and medallist, son of (1) Crispijn de Passe (i). In his youth he contributed to various of his father’s series of prints, but he soon began to specialize in portraits. His first known example is of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1612; Hollstein, no. 61), and there is a portrait of Hendrick Goltzius (1614; Hollstein, no. 57). From 1616 Simon was probably working in London, where he made numerous portraits, for example of King Charles I and such noblemen as Francis Bacon, which were published either by his father or in London. In 1623 Simon probably visited his brother Crispijn (ii) in Paris, where he engraved a portrait of Antoine de Pluvinel (Hollstein, no. 105).
Part of the Passe, de family
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