Gijsbert van Veen

[5] Upon his return to Flanders, van Veen moved to Brussels where his brother had become a painter to the court of Archdukes Albert and Isabella.

In 1603, van Veen was paid 150 livres from state funds for carrying out secret missions for the Archdukes Albert and Isabella.

[2] He made illustrations for a series of four books which Theodor de Bry published in four languages (English, German, French and Latin) in Frankfurt in 1590.

The books were illustrated versions of Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia about the first English settlements in America and the lives of the Algonquian-speaking Indians in the Outer Banks region of present-day North Carolina.

One of van Veen's engravings for this book series entitled The Conjurer depicts a native American medicine man performing a ritual on the board of a river.

[8][9] Gijsbert van Veen is also credited with making the engravings after designs by his brother Otto for the Horatian emblem book entitled Quinti Horatii Flacci emblemata : imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata first published in Antwerp in 1607 by Hieronymus Verdussen.