The New International Encyclopædia/Sadeler

SADELER, sä′de-lẽr. A Flemish family of engravers, the best-known of whom were the following: Jan the Elder (1550–c.1610) , who was born at Brussels, worked at Mainz, Cologne, Frankfort, and Munich, and then settled in Venice, where he died. Of his work, numbering more than 200 plates, the portraits were the most meritorious part.—Raphael (1561–1628), born at Brussels, was a pupil of Jan, and accompanied him to Germany and Venice; thence he returned to Munich in 1604, to execute the engravings for Bavaria Saneta et Pia, an extensive publication, completed in 1618. One of his principal works, which has become very rare, was "The Battle of Prague" (1620), in eight plates.—Egidius (1570–1629), engraver and painter, nephew of the preceding, the most talented of the family, was born at Antwerp, accompanied his uncles on their travels, was called to Prague by Rudolph II. and continued there in high favor also under Rudolph's successors, Matthias and Ferdinand II. His plates after Italian, Dutch, and Flemish masters, his own compositions, and many excellent portraits number more than 400. A series of 52 plates on the Roman Antiquities, Vestigi della antiquità in Roma (1606), was always held in great esteem, and two very rare plates represent the "Interior of Vladislav Hall in the Burg at Prague" (1607). His painting of the "Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" is in the Vienna Museum.