Cornelis de Hooghe

Biography
1541 - 1583

About the artist

Cornelis de Hooghe (1541, The Hague – 1583, The Hague) was an engraver and cartographer. He received his education as an engraver from Philip Galle. After his apprenticeship he worked for Margareth of Parme, his halfsister and a bastard of Charles V, like Cornelis himself. De Hooghe made two maps for Margareth: he made a copy of Forlani’s La vera descrittione della Gallia Belgica, in which he added the borders of Belgica - according to the peace treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis (1559) - and the blason of Philip II.

The second map, De Hooghe’s masterpiece, is the ‘Hollandia-map’ with the blazons of Philip II and William of Orange. After the Antwerp rebellion in 1566 William of Orange fled to Germany. The Hollandia-map was no longer up-to-date due to the new political situation. Cornelis lost his job at Margareth’s court when she left for Italy at the end of 1567.

He moved to London, but in 1569 he returned to Antwerp, where he finished a calligraphic work, the Exercitatio. In 1570 De Hooghe was back in London, afterwards he worked in Ipswich, where he had his own trading company. It is unknown, when he produced the first atlas of England and Wales, the Elisabeth Atlas and the Saxton Atlas. In 1581 De Hooghe promised his support to the Spanish king, who wanted to restore his authority over the Netherlands. De Hooghe was therefore considered as a traitor of his country. He was captured and sentenced to death by beheading on March 29, 1583

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