Antique Portrait of Pepin of Herstal by Collaert (c.1620)

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Pipinus II. Herstallus IV. Brab. Princ.' - This plate shows a full length portrait of Pepin (c. 635 - 714), commonly known as Pepin of Herstal, a Frankish statesman and military leader who de facto ruled Francia as the Mayor of the Palace from 680 until his death. With coat of arms, armour and a dog. 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.