Nicolaus van Aelst (c. 1526 – 19 July 1613)Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, ''Copyright in the Renaissance: prints and the privilegio in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome'', Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004, , p. 272 was a

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engraver and perhaps painter, and a resident of

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Van Aelst was born in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. At an early age he established himself at

, where from 1550 to 1612 he carried out a considerable commerce in prints. The names of the

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, and the engraver of the plates, executed for his collection, were frequently omitted, and his own inserted, with the word ''formis'', to denote that he was the publisher. Many of the plates had previously been issued by other publishers. He printed several plates that had previously been owned by

Antonio Salamanca Antonio Salamanca or Martinez de Salamanca (Salamanca 1479–1562 Rome) was a Spanish-born Italian dealer and publisher who settled in Rome and was active as a book-seller, publisher and engraver. He was born in Salamanca, Spain in 1479 and ...

, which Van Aelst may have acquired from Salamanca's heir, Francesco Salamanca. There is, however,

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that he produced some work as an engraver himself, as on several plates the word ''fecit'', or ''sculpsit'', is added to his name.

Carl Heinrich von Heineken Carl Heinrich von Heineken (1707–1791) was a German art historian who was for a time in charge of King Augustus III of Poland's royal art collection. Biography He was the son of Paul Heinecken, a painter and architect in Lübeck, Germany, an ...

mentions a set of twelve plates of birds

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by him.Bryan 1886–1889 1886–1889 He died in Rome on 19 July 1613

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Map of the Holy Land and Jerusalem by Aelst, ca. 1590
Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, the

National Library of Israel The National Library of Israel (NLI; he, הספרייה הלאומית, translit=HaSifria HaLeumit; ar, المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل), formerly Jewish National and University Library (JNUL; he, בית הספרים הלא� ...

1520s births 1613 deaths 16th-century Flemish painters Flemish engravers 16th-century engravers 17th-century engravers Artists from Brussels {{engraver-stub

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