121. Otto van Veen - Picturing the Netherlandish Canon

Engraving by Robert de Baudous (Orenstein 1996, 41)
Signed ‘Hh ex.’ by Hendrick Hondius

19.2 x 12.7 cm

Transcription of Inscription:

OTTO VENIUS, LEIDANUS, PICTOR,
Moribus, ingenio praeclarus Venius Arte est.
Quae ingenio finxit, pinxit et ipse manu.
Regibus hic magnis est invitatus : at ipse
Regna, orbes dulci posthabuit Patria.

Translation of Inscription:

Otto van Veen of Leyden, painter,
Van Veen is illustrious for his morals, his genius and his skill.¹ What his genius imagined, he also painted with his own hand. He was invited by great kings, but he himself held kingdoms and worlds to be less important than his sweet fatherland.

Orenstein 1996, Baudous no. 41

Karel Van Mander’s biography of Otto van Veen
Grove Art Online biography

Footnotes:

See note on the text for 91. Gillis Mostaert.

Artist Tags: 1610 Hondius Pictorum, Artists with tools of their trade (not including sheet or rolls of paper), Explicitly described as painters in the verse, Ingenio - genius, Only in the Hondius Pictorum, Pictor, Prints in Part Three, Rulers and Patrons and Third person.