Van de Passe family

Crispijn (van) de Passe the Elder (c. 1564 in Arnemuiden – buried 6 March 1637 in Utrecht)[2] was a Dutch publisher and engraver.

His works include a famous rendition of the English Gunpowder Plotters, although it is not known what basis he had for the likenesses.

His eldest son, Simon de Passe (c. 1595 – 6 May 1647) worked in England from about 1616 before moving to Copenhagen as royal engraver and designer of medals in 1624, where he remained until his death.

He joined the Huguenot church in Threadneedle Street in 1624, and his wife Elizabeth may have been the daughter of the English publisher Thomas Jenner.

[8] Magdalena van de Passe (1600–1638) was, like her siblings, born in Cologne and died in Utrecht.

She specialized in landscapes until her marriage to the minor artist Frederick van Bevervoorden in 1634, after which she essentially stopped engraving, even though her husband died in 1636.

After the three deaths in the period 1637–38 only Crispijn II in the Dutch Republic and Simon in Denmark remained.