Personalities Sompel, Pieter van

Engraver. Student of Pieter Soutman. He worked almost exclusively for this master, made many portrait engravings for publications: "Effigies imperatorum domus Austriacae" (1644), "Ferdinandus II et III imperatorum domus Austriacae", "Comites Nassoviae" (1643). He also engraved portraits, mythological and religious scenes from the originals of Rubens and van Dyck.