Pieter van den Keere

Pieter van den Keere, Peter or Peter Kaerius, (* 1570 in Ghent, † 1630 ) was a Belgian engraver and publisher.

Life and work

Pieter van den Keere is born in 1570 as son of the book printer and type founder Hendric van den Keere the Younger in Ghent. Due to religious unrest and persecution he fled to London, where he worked as an engraver. His earliest engravings are found in John North " Speculum Britanniae " ( 1593), including views of London and Westminster Abbey from a bird's perspective. 1595 versa Van den Keere again back to Holland and settled in Amsterdam, where he lived and worked until his death. First there the Nova Totius Europae descriptio published in cooperation with Jodocus Hondius. Besides his work as an engraver, he enters 1609 as a publisher in appearance. So he provides, inter alia, in 1613 the Rotterdam Admiralty several globes. 1617 Atlas of the Netherlands appears " Germania inferior " with his name as the author and with some maps that show his full signature engraver. In addition to various topographical single sheets including those of Amsterdam (1618 ), Nuremberg ( 1619) and the Duchy of Württemberg ( 1619) Van pierces the Keere 1621 a world map ( " Nova Totius orbis terrarum "), which appears to Jan Janszoon in Amsterdam. After 1620 he seems to operate a rain engraving trade mainly, at least, a 1623 inventory recorded a rich supply of relevant work on. He died in 1630 in Ghent.