scanned copy of one of the styles of Hendrik Abbé's signature
Hendrik Abbé was a Flemish painter, engraver and architect.[1]
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]
^"Metamorphosen". Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. 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). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
External links
Media related to Hendrik Abbé at Wikimedia Commons
