Pieter de Bailliu (1613-1660)

• Was a Flemish engraver.
• He was born at Antwerp in 1613.

• He visited Italy, and there engraved some plates.

• He returned to Antwerp after 1637, and from 1640 to 1660 engraved several of the works of the most celebrated of the Flemish masters, particularly Rubens and Van Dyck.

• According to the RKD he worked in Rome and was the father of the engravers Peeter-Frans and Bernard.

• Although by no means equal to Vorsterman, Bolswert, or Pontius, his prints are held in considerable estimation.

• Meyer's 'Künstler-Lexikon' gives a list of 103 of his engravings, on which his name is found spelled in a variety of ways.

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