Antique Portrait of Otto, Duke of Lower Lorraine, by Collaert (c.1620)

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Otho Lotharin. Dux, XVIII. Brab. Princeps.' - This plate shows a full length portrait of Otto (c. 970–1012), the duke of Lower Lorraine in Germany from 993 until his death. He was the son of Charles, son of King Louis IV of France, and his first wife, Adelaide of Troyes. 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.