Pieter Perret

[5]: 160 In 1584 Juan de Herrera commissioned Perret to print images of the plants and topographical views of the Monastery of San Lorenzo Del Escorial.

[5]: 160  Herrera was to provide the copper plates already drawn by his hand, and Perret was to engrave them for a fee of 600 ducats.

Despite the prohibition on taking on other work, Perret published the first of his portraits, that of the Empress Maria of Austria, in 1585.

[7]: 377  Between 1591 and 1595, he published some allegorical engravings based on drawings provided by Otto van Veen.

[2]: 124  Perret published at least thirty-four books while in Madrid, with more in Lisbon, where he may have moved during the Iberian Union.