Antique Portrait of Lothair of Supplinburg by Collaert (c.1620)

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Lotharius III. Franc. Rex. XVI. Brab. Princ' - This plate shows a full length portrait of Lothair II or Lothair III (before 9 June 1075 – 4 December 1137), known as Lothair of Supplinburg, Holy Roman Emperor from 1133 until his death. He was appointed Duke of Saxony in 1106 and elected King of Germany in 1125 before being crowned emperor in Rome. 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.