Hendrik Abbé

Hendrik Abbé was a Flemish painter, engraver and architect.[1]

scanned copy of one of the styles of Hendrik Abbé's signature

Life

Abbé was baptized in 1639 in the cathedral at Antwerp. Some prints by him were published in Antwerp in 1670.[1] An edition of Ovid's Metamorpheses, published by Francois Foppens in Brussels in 1677, was partly illustrated with plates by other engravers after drawings by Abbé.[2]

References
  1. Bryan 1886
  2. "Metamorphosen". Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg. Retrieved 28 September 2015.

Sources
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Abbe, Hendrik". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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