Mattheus Borrekens

Borrekens was active as a reproductive printmaker who made prints after the works of leading Flemish artists.

He also engraved frontispieces of publications such as Christophe Butkens'sTrophées tant sacrés et profanes du Duché de Brabant.

This was a publication project of the Flemish painter Anselm van Hulle who was present in Münster where he had made portraits of the delegates to the conference.

He had reproductions made from his sketches by Mattheus Borrekens and other leading engravers in Antwerp, such as Paulus Pontius, Coenraet Waumans, Cornelis Galle the Younger and Pieter de Jode II.

Ad vivum Anselmi v. Hulle penicillo expressi eiusque cura et aere per ingeniores huius aevi sculptores caelo representati.

[6] The engravings were also sold individually, so that each diplomat could assemble a personal selection of portraits and have them bound with a specially printed title page.

These works show his ability in the creation of large format engravings and the design of the rich emblems.