Martinus van den Enden the Elder (original) (raw)

Martinus or Maarten van den Enden or van den Eynde (30 October 1605, in Antwerp – after 20 June 1654) was a Flemish printer, publisher, bookseller and art dealer who was active in Antwerp in the early 17th century. He was a leading publisher of art works and was the first publisher of Anthony van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum (referred to as the Iconographie), a series of prints with half-length portraits of eminent contemporaries. By the middle of the 17th century he was a leading publisher of prints in Antwerp, along with Frans van den Wyngaerde, and Joannes Meyssens.