Antique Portrait of Godfrey II by Collaert (c.1620)

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Godefridus II. XXV. Brab. Princeps' - This plate shows a full length portrait of Godfrey II (c. 1110 – 13 June 1142), he was the count of Louvain, landgrave of Brabant by inheritance from 23 January 1139. From: 'Annales ducum seu Principum Brabantiae totiusque' by Francicus van der Haer (also Haraeus). Published in Antwerp by Moretum & Moreti c. 1620.

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'J. Collaert' after 'Otto van Veen'. Jan Collaert, member of the famous Flemish Collaert family of engravers, 16th and 17th centuries. Otto van Veen, also known by his Latinized name Otto Venius or Octavius Vaenius, (c.1556 – 6 May 1629) was a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.