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Last Name Hoefnagel
Given Name Jacob
alt. Names J. H. ; Jacobus / Jakob / Jakub Houfnaglius / Hufnagel ;
Marriage 1: Anna Muys (1xxx-1xxx) in 1605 ; 2: Skála ze Zhoře (1xxx-1xxx) in 1614 ; 3: Elisabeth Bruggen (1xxx-1xxx) in 1626
Children 8: Anna, Jacob, Caspar, Martha, Jan, Caecilia, Janne, Jacob, Anna Maria
Year born 1575 in Antwerp, Belgium or Frankfurt am Main, Ger
Year died 1632 / 1633
Place of death Munich, Bavaria or Hamburg, Germany or Netherlands
Father's occupation court painter ->Joris (Georg) Hoefnagel (1xxx-1xxx)
Relatives Susanne née van Onchen (Onssen) (mother); Christiaen Huyghen (uncle) ; Nicolaes Schnouckaert, Prague, (brother-in-law) ; Anthoni Muys ( father-in-law
Education taught by Abraham Liesaert (1xxx-1xxx) in Antwerp
Country of Activity Malawi
Worked for Georg Hoefnagel: Archetypa 1592 ; Georg Braun & ->Frans Hogenberg: Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1612-17) ; Vogelschau (1609) ;
Patronage Bavarian court of Albert V & Wilhelm V, Munich.Rudolf II (Kunstkammer specimens)
Collaborators with father ->Jovis Hoefnagel ; ->F.Hogenberg ; de Bry ;
Techniques natural miniature painting and copperplate engraving
Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Hoefnagel
Archival sources Diversae Insectarium Volatium 1630 ; topographic drawings Universität Marienberg
Published sources AKL 73 2012: 509; Walpole 1969: 1 ; Dance 1989: 28 ; Pinault 1991: 21 ; B. J. Ford 1992: 51; Chansigaud: Hist l'illus nat 2009: 39 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Gilbert 2000: 102-3 ;
other Active in Vienna, Prague; Göteborg & Altona as diplomat. Used a convex lens; botanical, zoological, mineral specimens; taught cousin Constantijn Huyghens miniature painting.
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