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

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Lambertus Baldricus, XXI. Brab. Princ.' - This plate shows a full length portrait of Lambert II (died 1054), count of Louvain between 1033 and 1054. With coat of arms and armour. 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.