Martinus or Maarten van den Enden or van den Eynde
[Martinus van den Enden]
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
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(30 October 1605, in
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, – after 20 June 1654) was a Flemish printer, publisher, bookseller and art dealer who was active in
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, in the early 17th century. He was a leading publisher of art works and was the first publisher of
Anthony van Dyck
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The seventh c ...
's ''Icones Principum Virorum'' (referred to as the ''Iconographie''), a series of prints with half-length portraits of eminent contemporaries.
[Maarten van den Enden]
at the British Museum By the middle of the 17th century he was a leading publisher of prints in Antwerp, along with
Frans van den Wyngaerde
Frans van den Wyngaerde or Frans van den WijngaerdeHis name is sometimes also spelled Francis vanden Wyngaert ( Antwerp, 8 July 1614Antwerp 17 March 1679) was a Flemish printmaker, draughtsman and publisher.[Gillis Hendricx Gillis may refer to:
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and
Joannes Meyssens
Joannes (Johannes, Jan, or Jean) Meyssens (17 May 1612 – 18 September 1670), was a Flemish Baroque painter, engraver, and print publisher.
Life
He was born in Brussels, but moved to Antwerp at an early age, where he became master of the G ...
.
[Frans van den Wyngaerde]
at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Life
He was born in Antwerp as the son of Johannes (Hans) van den Enden and Barbara Janssens. He was baptized on 30 October 1605. His parents were manual labourers who worked as weavers. He was the younger brother of Johannes the Younger and
Franciscus van den Enden
Franciscus van den Enden, in later life also known as 'Affinius' (Latinized form of 'Van den Enden') ( – 27 November 1674) was a Flemish Jesuit, Neo-Latin poet, physician, art dealer, philosopher, and plotter against Louis XIV of France. Born i ...
, who became a Neo-Latin poet, physician, art dealer and philosopher. It is not known whether Martinus also studied like his older brothers at the Augustine or Jesuit colleges in Antwerp. Given his later career, it does not seem unlikely that early in life he became the apprentice of an artist or craftsman. He must have enjoyed at least a basic education as confirmed by his signature under several documents. At least one painting with his signature has been identified. It is a depiction of the
''Visitation of Mary'', which until the middle of the twentieth century was thought to be an early work of Peter Paul Rubens. It may have been a copy he made to sell in his art business.
He was registered as a master art dealer in the
Guild of St. Luke
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of Antwerp in the Guild year 1630–1631.
[Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius (ed.), ''De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde'']
Volume 2, Antwerp, 1864, pp. 15, 18, 142, 175, 313
He married in 1626 Lucretia de la Haij, who was possibly a relative of the Antwerp engraver and printer Michiel Haeye (Haeij). The couple lived in a house called the 'Witte Leeuw' (White Lion) in the Haarstraat, near the Grote Markt in the centre of Antwerp. They were the parents of Martinus the younger, who was baptized on 25 April 1633 in the Cathedral of Antwerp, with the publisher Gillis Hendricx acting as godfather.
[ Martinus the younger continued the business and also became an art dealer.][ Martinus the Elder's presumed daughter Clara van den Enden married the prominent engraver ]Pieter de Jode II
Pieter de Jode II or Pieter de Jode the Younger (1606–1674) was a Flemish Baroque printmaker, draughtsman, painter and art dealer. A scion of an important dynasty of printmakers active in Antwerp, he created many prints after the works of lead ...
in 1648. This shows that he was well connected in the art and publishing world in Antwerp. He may have operated a side business as a seller of paintings, art assessor and wine merchant, but his major occupation was that of a print publisher.[
While van den Enden seems to have been successful in building good relationships with other publishers, engravers and artists and to sell some of his output abroad, he seems to have run into financial trouble. This lead in March 1644 to a financial settlement with Gillis Hendricx, the godfather of his son. It is possible that Gillis Hendricx obtained the plates for the ''Iconographie'' under this settlement and thus could become the second publisher of the ''Iconographie''. In November 1651, in another settlement van den Enden was required to pay the painter ]Jan Baptist Borrekens
Jan Baptist Borrekens or Jan Baptist Borkens (17 May 1611 – 23 February 1675) was a Flemish painter and art dealer.[J ...]
a debt of 250 guilders to Borrekens, to be discharged by printing as many copies as were needed from plates that were owned jointly by him and Pieter de Jode.[ On 20 June 1654, he was recorded as a ‘buitenpoorter’ in the ]poorter
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books of Antwerp, meaning that from that date on he lived outside the city walls while retaining his Antwerp citizenship.[
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It is not known where and when he died, and no further documents are available that can shed light on what happened to him from about the second half of the 1650s. It is believed that his son continued his business in Antwerp after his father left.
Publications
Martinus van den Enden specialized in large to medium-sized prints executed by leading local engravers, after designs by leading Antwerp masters executed in a style and with themes that were typical of the Counter Reformation
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. He published more than 250 prints. Aside from portraits, the largest group of prints published by van den Enden depict Biblical scenes, followed by hagiographic
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prints, landscapes, genre scenes and mythological subjects.[
He worked most often with the engravers ]Schelte à Bolswert
Schelte a Bolswert (1586–1659) was a leading Dutch engraver, noted for his works after Rubens and Van Dyck.
Life
He was born in the town of Bolswert, in Friesland, in 1586. Both he and his older brother, Boetius à Bolswert, worked in Amste ...
(c.1586–1659), Paulus Pontius
Paulus Pontius (May 1603 in Antwerp – 16 January 1658 in Antwerp) was a Flemish engraver and painter. He was one of the leading engravers connected with the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens. After Rubens' death, Pontus worked with other leadin ...
(1603–1658), Lucas Vorsterman the Elder
Lucas Vorsterman (1595–1675) was a Baroque engraver. He worked with the artists Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, as well as for patrons such as Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel and Charles I of England.
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(c.1595–1675), Michel Natalis
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(1610–1668), Pieter de Jode II (1601–1674), Mattheus Borrekens
Mattheus Borrekens or Mattheus BorkensAlso referred to as Mattias Boerrekens and Capiteyn Matthias Borckens ( Antwerp, baptized on 7 July 1615 – Antwerp, 25 December 1670) was a Flemish engraver, printmaker and draughtsman. (1615–1670) and Pieter de Bailliu
Pieter de Bailliu (1613 – after 1660) was a Flemish engraver.
Life
He was born at Antwerp in 1613. After having learned the first principles of engraving in his own country, he visited Italy for improvement, and there engraved some plates. He r ...
(1613-after 1665). His major publication project was that of 84 portrait prints for Anthony van Dyck's ''Iconographie''. Van den Enden was involved in this project initiated by van Dyck from the start. All the prints in the series have the same approximate dimensions and are all executed in a similar style showing that they were meant to form a collection. However, it was only the second publisher, Gillis Hendricx, who first sold them with an accompanying title page. While the ''Iconographie'' clearly incorporated predominantly portraits of local artists, it had a wide appeal outside the Antwerp print market and van den Enden was able to market the prints easily abroad.[
Other artists with whom van den Enden regularly collaborated on prints were Peter Paul Rubens and Abraham van Diepenbeeck, and, to a lesser degree, ]Cornelis de Wael
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(1592–1667) and Jan Lievens
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(1607–1674).
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1605 births
Year of death unknown
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