Antique Portrait of Pepin I of Landen by Collaert (c.1620)

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Pipinus de Landis I. Brabantiae Princeps.' - This plate shows a full length portrait of Pepin I (also Peppin, Pipin, or Pippin) of Landen (c. 580 – 27 February 640), also called the Elder or the Old, the Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia under the Merovingian king Dagobert I from 623 to 629. He was also the mayor for Sigebert III from 639 until his death. 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.