Verdussen family

Artus Quellinus, who sculpted the lion at the entrance of the publisher's shop, married Margaretha Verdussen (1613-1668) in 1640.

[3] He started working as an apprentice to the bookseller and printer Hendrick Wouters.

He bought Petrus Phalesius the Younger's printing office "De Roode Leeu" in 1606.

Mainly known as the printer of the Extraordinarissche Post-Tijdinghen from March or April 1635 on, as a successor to Abraham Verhoeven's Nieuwe Tijdinghen, the first newspaper in the Southern Netherlands.

He continued his newspaper publications (with varying titles) until 1695, when he sold his company to Hendrik Aertsens III.

Hieronymus III was born in 1620, married in 1649, and again in 1652, entered the guild in 1657, and died in 1687.

Hendrik was the second son of Hieronymus III, born in 1653, married in 1689, entered the guild in 1691 and died in 1721.

Alderman of Antwerp, member of the Académie impériale et royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, and best known as a writer of history and a bibliophile.

After his death in 1773, his library was sold in 1776: this contained next to a rich collection of works on national history and a number of incunables also a collection of prints of the works of Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, e.a.

His library of over 6000 items was sold after his death in 1857, ending the history of the publishing house of Verdussen.

After the Belgian Revolution in 1830, he became Mayor of Antwerp for two days, and afterwards served as Alderman of the city.

Titlepage of the Arte de ingenio by Baltasar Gracián (under the pseudonym Lorenzo Gracian), published by Hieronymus Verdussen III and Jan Baptist Verdussen in 1669
Title page of the Emblemata Horatiana by Otto van Veen, published in 1607
De Ommegang op de Meir by Gaspar Bouttats , 1685, published by Hieronymus III
The Pluto pigsty , illustration from the Obras of de Quevedo, published in 1699 by Hendrik and Cornelis Verdussen