Jan van Haelbeck

He was one of the principal artists who contributed the illustrations to Italian fencing master Salvator Fabris' Lo Schermo, overo Scienza d’Arme, which was published in 1606 in Copenhagen with royal support.

[7] Jan van Haelbeck engraved a series of prints, which were published in Paris by Jean Leclerc IV around 1615 under the title Énigme joyeuse pour les bons esprits.

Van Haelbeck’s series was very popular and was regularly reprinted as illustrations in publications of an indelicate sort that were principally marketed to Europe’s university students.

Versions of various of the engravings appear, for instance, in a number of tomes by German printmaker Peter Rollos the Elder, published in Germany between 1619 and the late 1630s.

[8] Jan van Haelbeck produced a number of portraits including of Henri IV of France and the Venetian doge Leonardo Donato.