The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...

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Title: The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...
Publication: [London :: s.n.],; 1694.
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Subject terms: Artists.; Engravers.; Portraits.; Artists -- Portraits.
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7. Iohn Mabusius

Was born at Haynaut upon the Sambre, a person of a disso∣lute and vitious life, yet an excellent Artist. For his debauch∣eries the Magistrates of Middleburgh put him in prison, where he had leisure to invent several curious Designs which were much esteemed: Two of his Pieces being the Pictures of 2 young Princes, were brought into England, and placed in the Gallery at Whitehall. He was Contemporary with Lucas Van Leyden, and his Rival in the art. He died at Antwerp 1. Oct. 1532. And was buried in the Cathedral.