A scion of an important dynasty of printmakers active in Antwerp, he created many prints after the works of leading painters and was a close collaborator of Anthony van Dyck for whom he engraved many portraits.

[1] Pieter de Jode II was born in Antwerp in 1606, where he was baptized on 24 November of that year.

[2] He learned drawing and engraving from his father, Pieter de Jode I (1570–1634), a leading printmaker in Antwerp who had travelled to Italy and whose engravings were a source for the Flemish painter and artist biographer Karel van Mander.

[1] He and his father were among the engravers selected by Anthony van Dyck for his Iconographie, a series that was published over several decades and was a compendium of portraits of famous people.

After the death of van Dyck, he continued to work on the Iconographie series, in collaboration with other engravers employed by the publisher Gillis Hendricx in Antwerp.