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(4) Crispijn (van) de Passe (ii)
(b Cologne, c. 1597; bur Amsterdam, 19 Jan 1670). Engraver, draughtsman, print publisher and writer, son of (1) Crispijn de Passe (i). He engraved a series of portraits of four contemporary European rulers, including Emperor Rudolf II and Louis XIII of France (Hollstein, nos 430–33). He was the most productive member of his generation of the de Passe family; besides biblical and historical subjects, he engraved mainly portraits and book illustrations. His work is close in style to that of his father, but his prints of the 1620s and 1630s begin to be distinguishable by a remarkably fine, sketchy use of the burin. Some were made after his own designs. He worked as an assistant on his father’s productions, including the series of the Wonders of the World (1614; Hollstein, nos 72–82). He designed and engraved most of the Hortus floridus (1614). From 1617 he regularly worked in Paris, where he engraved portraits, for example of Louis XIII (Hollstein, nos 75–83) and Marie de’ Medici (Hollstein, nos 86, 87), book illustrations and title-pages. He made illustrations for the Officina arcularia (1612) and a series of 60 engravings on the subject of horsemanship for Antoine de Pluvinel’s Maneige royal (Paris, 1623). His portraits include important images of Prince Frederick Henry of Orange and his Family (e.g. Hollstein, no. 50), a number of other European kings and various Dutch scholars, statesmen and admirals, for example Gerard Vossius, Johan van Oldenbarneveld and Piet Heyn. Through the mediation of his brother (2) Simon de Passe, from 1637 Crispijn (ii), along with other Dutch artists, made a series of drawings from Danish history for King Christian IV. Of the original 84 drawings, 47 are in the Prentenkabine at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; of these, 29 are by Crispijn (ii).
Part of the Passe, de family
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