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(1) Philippe Thomassin
(b Troyes, 1562; d Rome, 12 May 1622). Engraver and print publisher. The son of a master-goldsmith in Troyes, he was an apprentice goldsmith before leaving in 1585 for Rome. He spent the rest of his life in that city, being first employed by the print publisher Claude Duchet (d 1585). He came into contact with Bernardino Passeri, who introduced him to the Flemish style and that of the Dutch engraver Cornelis Cort, and with Antonio Tempesta. In 1588 he went into partnership with his brother-in-law, the painter Jean Turpin (?1561–after 1626) to publish his prints. He specialized in reproductive engravings of religious paintings by Italian artists such as Federico Barocci, Tempesta and Francesco Villamena and French artists such as Martin Fréminet; he also copied Flemish artists. A portrait of Henry IV after François Bunel (1522–?1599), produced at a time when that King was still a Protestant, brought him before the Inquisition in 1590. The association with Turpin broke up in 1602, when Thomassin gave his copper plates (about 240) to his brother-in-law, who removed the engraver’s name from them.
Part of the Thomassin family
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