Theodor van Kessel

He was one of the engravers who collaborated on the Theatrum Pictorium of David Teniers the Younger.

He is recorded as working in Rome where he inscribed his name in the catacombs of Domitilla, in the crypt of David.

[3] He is known for several series of prints after other artists; among them are 10 plates of animals he made in 1654 for Jan van den Hecke entitled Alcune Animali.

Van den Hecke was at the time court painter and curator for the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm.

After van den Hecke died, Teniers succeeded him in the position of court painter and curator.