Abraham van den Blocke

Abraham van den Blocke (1572[1] – 31 January 1628) was an architect and sculptor.

[2] Van den Blocke was born in Königsberg (today Kaliningrad),[3] Ducal Prussia, presumably the oldest of seven children of Dorothea and Willem van den Blocke, a Flemish sculptor and architect who had trained with Cornelis Floris in Antwerp.

[4] In 1584 the family lived in Danzig (Gdańsk), where he was trained as a sculptor in his father's workshop.

[2] Van den Blocke died in Danzig in the same year as his father and brother Isaak, likely from an infectious disease.

In 1606-1613 he made elements for the Neptune's well and built the Royal Granary for King Sigismund III Vasa.