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

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

Life

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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]

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  1. ^ a b Bryan 1886
  2. ^ "Metamorphosen". Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg. Retrieved 28 September 2015.

Sources

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  •   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, 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.
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