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North Netherlandish, Danish, German
Born
Keulen 1595
c. 1595
Deceased
Copenhagen 1647-05-06
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eldest son of Crispijn van de Passe I and Madeleine de Bock (died 1635), brother of Crispijn II, Willem and Magdalena; married on 17 January 1641 in Copenhagen with Elisabeth Rasmusdatter (Munk 1994)
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  • Utrecht (stad) 1612 - 1615
  • Londen (Engeland) 1615 - 1622
    He came to London in 1615 and worked at first almost exclusively for Compton Holland. Simon soon switched publisher, for his plates of 1617-8 were almost all for Sudbury & Humble. Since the Sudbury & Humble address appears to be a later addition to several plates, squeezed into a space not designed to fit it (eg. Viscount Lisle), it may be that Simon first tried to publish his plates himself, before, several months later, going over to Sudbury & Humble. Simon's last plate published in England was in 1621 (Walpole; British Museum).
  • Praag 1617
    (Munk 1994)
  • Parijs 1622
    visited his brother Crispijn II (Turner a.o. 1996)
  • Utrecht (stad) 1622 - 1624
    in October 1624 he was baptised according to Mennonite rites
  • Kopenhagen 1624 - 1627
    from letters by Christian Friis (September 1624) to agent Cornelius Wincken in The Hague, it is known that Simon de Passe was invited to come to Denmark to become engraver in the service of the university in Copenhagen; the contract dates from December 1624; in 1626 he was paid for engravings in Ole Worm's De Fastis Danicis, In 1634 he designed an invention for the riding at the tilt for the marriage of the Prince Elect and together with Karel van Mander III he designed the first court ballet ever held in Denmark, a.o. figuring Apollo and the 9 Muses (Munk 1994)
  • Noordelijke Nederlanden (hist. regio) 1627 - 1630
    Munk 1994
  • Kopenhagen 1630 - 1637
    on 4 February 1637 the king and the De Passe signed a contract for 84 drawings of the old Danish kings against 5000 rix dollars; these should be made by the best Dutch artist of the time. At first these designs probably were meant for a publication. Later the idea arose to make a series op paintings for Kronborg (Munk 1994); was invited by Maria Eleonora to come to Sweden; in 1635 he got permission to travel to Sweden but there is no proof that he was there (Roosval 1952-1967)
  • Utrecht (stad) 1637
    in Utrecht to give commissions for Kronborg Castle (Gerson 1942/1983); was on 26 November 1637 in Utrecht, to give his brother in law P. van Hemelkoers power of attorney to liquidate in name of the whole family the estate of the late Crispijn de Passe (Obreen vol.7, p. 266-267),
  • Utrecht (stad) 1639 - 1641
    in 1639 the artist was in Utrecht to sign the contracts with Van Honthorst and other painters for the so-called Kronborg series, that were delivered to the king in 1641-1643; for the project he received 10-11.000 rix dollars on his conto; in the end there seem to have been serious problems between the king and De Passe regarding the project (Munk 1994)
  • Kopenhagen 1641 - 1647
    after his death the king paid the descendants 300 rix dollars for the copperplates of the series concerning Denmark's history
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portrait
made many portraits of Christian IV and members of the royal family, as well as portraits of the professors at the University of Copenhagen; bookillustrations for a.o. O. Worm, H. Lauremberg, C.R. Brochmann, C.O. Veyle (Munk 1994)
Creation date: 1992-01-19; Last modified date: 2023-03-27

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