SADELER, EGIDIUS, II

born c. 1570, 75, Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands [now in Belgium] died 1629, Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Habsburg domain [now in Czech Republic] Egidius also spelled Aegidius, also called Gillis Sadeler Flemish engraver, print dealer, and painter, most noted for his reproduction engravings of Renaissance and Mannerist paintings. Sadeler was born into a family of well-known engravers. Jan and Raphal Sadeler were probably uncles, and Egidius was Jan's student in 1585. From 1590 to 1597 Sadeler was active in Munich (Germany) and in Italy (mostly in Rome). In 1600 he was appointed court engraver to the emperor Rudolph II and his successors. Many of his prints were reproductions of the works of Mannerist painters active in Prague, and others reproduced works by Tintoretto, Titian, Raphael, and Agostino Carracci, but Sadeler also engraved some remarkable city views of Prague.