Discover print artist, draftsperson, reproductive engraver Hieronymus Wierix

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: Wiericz, Hieronymus
Wierx, Hieronymus
Wiricx, Hieronymus
Wierix, jeronimus

Qualifications: print artist, draftsperson, reproductive engraver
the brothers Johannes and Hieronymus made a great many engravings after famous artists (Dürer, Aldegrever, H.S. Beham, Schongauer, Raimondi, Lucas van Leyden etc.), often signed with their age (between 11 and 17), so that we should see them as tools in their training. There are reasons to suspect, that Hieronimus Cock (who edited several of these early works and owned the copper plates) set them up to do this: see Hollstein et al. 1949-2010, vol. 69 (2004), p. xv)

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish

Born: Antwerp (city) 1553
probably 1553, although he in October 1578 says that he is 24 years old, which suggests 1554 (lit. 1858)

Deceased: Antwerp (city) 1619-11/1619-11-21
buried on 21 November 1619 in St. Jacob's Church. His death duties were met between September 1619 and september 1620 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Antonie I (c. 1520/25-c.1572) and Cornelia Embrecht; brother of Jan and Antonie II; his daughter Cecilia was a sister-in-law of J. B. Barbé (see there), who had her certified in 1635 in order to get hold her property.

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11 hits in RKDimages as artist
12 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2 hits in RKDlibrary as illustrator
7 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Antwerpen (stad) 1573 - 1619
earliest datable work: 1565 (Hollstein et al. 1949-2010, vol. 69 (2004) p. xv, note 13 & 14; ‘wijnmeester’ [son of a master] in the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp in 1572 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961); he spent c. two years in jail, as he had wounded a certain Clara van Hove's head after several drinks, so that she came to die. On 24 March 1580 he was pardoned (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, vol. 1, p. 247, note 5). Like both his brothers, he was given to drinking to excess and throwing away all his money and leaving commissioned work unfinished (Hollstein et al. 1949-2010, vol. 69 (2004), p. xx).

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Connections with other artists

Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Merlen, Abraham van
Sande, Jan Baptist van den (I)
Weert, Jacob de
Wierix, Antonius (III)
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Quispe Tito, Diego
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Mortensen, Anders

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape (genre), Christian religious scene

Product: devotional print

Member of

Sint-Lucasgilde (Antwerpen)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 12 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961 , vol.1, p. 247, 334*, 345, 562
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 35 (1942), p. 537-538
Witt Checklist 1978
Duverger 1984-2004 , vol. 2 (1985), p. 142 no. 362; vol. 4 (1989), p. 71-72, no. 931; p. 245-246, no. 1047 (no. 362 dated 10 November 1620, Jan Bapt. Barbé, husband of Christine Wierix, had an album with Dürer prints confiscated by the bailiff in the house where his father-in-law just had died; no. 931 dated 14 March 1637, testament of Cecilia Wierix; no. 1047 dated 30 April 1639, probate inventory of Geertruida Wierix, made at the request of Hieronymus among others)
Bowen/Imhof 2008 , p. 352-353 and passim
Melion 2009 , p. 261-292
Nadal 2003-2007 , illustrations by him
Verheggen 2006 , passim
Hollstein Dutch & Flemish 1949-2010 , vol. 59 (2003) -72 (2007); biographical information: vol. 69 (2004)
Saur 1992- , vol. 116 (2022), p. 198-199

Le Messager des Sciences historiques des Arts et de la Bibliographie de Belgique (1858), p. 333-335
M. Rooses, 'De plaatsnijders der Evangelicae Historiae Imagines', Oud-Holland 6 (1888), p. 277-288
P. Génard, 'De privilegiën aan de graveurs Hieronymus Wierix en Jan-Baptist Barbé geschonken', Antwerpsch Archievenblad 4 (s.a.) [1868], p. 460-472
D. Freedberg, 'A Source for Rubens's Modello of the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin: A Case Study in the Response to Images', The Burlington Magazine 120 (1978), p. 432-441
A. Griffiths, 'Les Estampes des Wierix', The Burlington Magazine 126 (1984), p. 702-703 (review)
M. Royalton-Kisch, 'The Brothers Wierix', Print Quarterly 3 (1986), p. 141-146
T. Riggs, review of Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1978, The Art Bulletin 69 (1987), p. 479-480
K.L. Bowen, 'Newly discovered Wierix prints for Plantin's books of hours', Quaerendo 24 (1994), p. 275-295
K.L. Bowen, 'Wierix and Plantin: A Question of Originals and Copies', Print quarterly 14 (1997), p. 131-150
J. Clifton, 'Adriaen Huybrechts, the Wierix Brothers, and Confessional Politics in the Netherlands', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 52 (2001), p. 104-125
K. Bowen en D. Imhof, 'Reputation and wage: the case of engravers who worked for the Plantin-Moretus Press', Simiolus 30 (2003), p. 161-195
E.J. Peters, 'Processional print series in Antwerp during the Dutch Revolt', Print Quarterly 32 (2915), p. 259-270

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