Hieronymus Wierix

He is known for his reproductive engravings after the work of well-known local and foreign artists including Albrecht Dürer.

[1] After his father death Hieronymus was placed under the guardianship of Sanson Catsopyn and Jheronimus Mannacker.

[4] Listed as Lutherans at the time of the Fall of Antwerp in 1585, the family members seem to have reconverted to Catholicism soon thereafter.

[1] The three Wierix brothers gained a reputation for their disorderly conduct as evidenced by a 1587 letter by prominent publisher Christophe Plantin to the Jesuit priest Ferdinand Ximenes in which he complained that whoever wanted to employ the Wierix brothers had to look for them in the taverns, pay their debts and fines and recover their tools, since they would have pawned them.

[6] Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen[7] National Gallery of Art, Washington[8] Media related to Hieronymus Wierix at Wikimedia Commons