born 1558, Mulebrecht, Neth.
died Jan. 1, 1617, Haarlem
Dutch printmaker and painter.
He set up his own copperplate-engraving business in Haarlem and became the leading master of Dutch Mannerist engraving. His early works included reproductions of prints by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden . Among his best-known original prints are an engraving of the Farnese Hercules ( 0441; 1592), the chiaroscuro woodcut Hercules Killing Cacus (1588), and the series Roman Heroes (1586). His miniature portrait drawings are outstanding, and his landscape drawings anticipate the great 17th-century landscapes. His paintings, done late in his career, are less impressive, but his technique as an engraver was unsurpassed.