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(1) Jan [Johan] Sadeler I
(b Brussels, 1550; d ?Venice, Aug 1600). Draughtsman, engraver and publisher. He began work as a steel-chiseller or damascener but moved to Antwerp, where he was admitted to the Guild of St Luke in 1572 as a copperplate engraver. It was probably through Christoph Plantin’s publishing house that Jan came into contact with members of the Dutch Reformed Church with which he had close links. Jan engraved illustrations for Plantin (e.g. for the ‘Humanae salutatis monumenta’ of Arias Montanus, 1571, after drawings by Crispijn van den Broeck). It was probably in Antwerp also that he met Marten de Vos, with whom he and his brothers collaborated for many years (e.g. Jan’s engraving of de Vos’s Credo, c. 1579; Hollstein, nos 465–76). However, during his Antwerp years Jan engraved principally after the works of van den Broeck and Michiel Coxcie.
Part of the Sadeler family
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