Abraham de Bruyn

Abraham de Bruyn (c. 1539, Antwerp – 1587, Cologne?

He is ranked among the Little Masters, on account of his plates being usually very small.

He engraved in the manner of Wierix, and worked entirely with the graver, in a neat and formal style, but his drawing is far from correct.

It is believed that he worked also as a goldsmith.

Among his portraits, and prints of small friezes of hunting, hawking, &c., which are esteemed for their neatness, may be mentioned: Attribution:

Detail from plate 26 of the Omnium pene Europae... from 1577, from a copy kept in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.
Anna of Saxony
16th century costumes of merchants from Brabant and Antwerp, 1577
Sixteenth-century Polish trooper