Född 1759.
Fransk kartograf. Han betecknar sig som elev till hydrografen och ingenjören Rigobert Bonne (se denne). 1806 gav han ut atlasbandet till P.C.V. Boistes (se denne) 'Dictionnaire de géographie universelle'.
Phillips.
1804-1870
Billmark. Karl Johan, tecknare, litograf, f. 28 jan. 1804 i Stockholm, blef - efter att hafva tillbragt några år såsom handelsbiträde - 1822 lärjunge hos kopparstickaren K. D. Forssell, i hvilkens bekanta verk 'Ett år i Sverige' han utförde två tredjedelar af planscherna. 1827 lämnade han Forssells ateljé, öfvergaf gravyren för litografien, och sedan han i Etyder för landskapstecknare (1828-30) och Skotska vyer gifvit lefvande prof på sin förmåga.i den nyvalda konstgrenen, lämnade han Sverige 1833 och var därefter bosatt i Paris till sin död, i nov. 1870. Därifrån företog han flera resor till Tyskland, Schweiz, Italien och hemlandet. I Paris utgaf han sina arbeten, bl. a. Stockholms pittoreska omgifningar: Djurgården; Pittoresk resetur från Stockholm till Neapel (1841-51); Sverige. Akvarell-litografi och tontryck (1853-66, vyer och interiörer från Stockholm, Uppsala, Sigtuna, Gripsholm och Skokloster); Panorama öfver Stockholm från Skeppsholmskyrkans kupol, och det för konung Karl XV:s räkning utförda praktve...
Bland arbeten.
Ett år i Sverige
Etyder för landskapstecknare 1828-30
Skotska vyer
Stockholms pittoreska omgifningar: Djurgården
Pittoresk resetur från Stockholm till Neapel (1841-51)
Sverige. Akvarell-litografi och tontryck (1853-66, vyer och interiörer från Stockholm, Uppsala, Sigtuna, Gripsholm och Skokloster)
Panorama öfver Stockholm från Skeppsholmskyrkans kupol
Le château royal d'Ulriksdal (1871)
(Nordisk Familjebok, Ugglan, Band 3 spalt 399.)
Flemish cartographer.
Brabant (Sylvaducis) used by Blaeu 1634 and later.
Tooley.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
Dalman - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
Biografiska uppgifter:1571-c. 1646.
Pieter van den Keere was one of a number of refugees who fled from religious persecution in the Low Countries between the years 1570 and 1 590. He moved to London in 1584 with his sister who married Jodocus Hondius, also a refugee there, and through Hondius he undoubtedly learned his skills as an engraver and cartographer. In the course of a long working life he engraved a large number of individual maps for prominent cartographers of the day but he also produced an Atlas of the Netherlands (1617-22) and county maps of the British Isles which have become known as Miniature Speeds, a misnomer which calls for some explanation.
In about 1599 he engraved plates for 44 maps of the English and Welsh counties, the regions of Scotland and the Irish provinces. The English maps were based on Saxton, the Scottish on Ortelius and the Irish on the famous map by Boazio. These maps were not published at once in book form but there is evidence which suggests a date of issue (in Amsterdam) between 1605 and 1610 although at least one authority believes they existed only in proof form until 1617 when Willem Blaeu issued them with a Latin edition of Camden's Britannia. At this stage two maps were added, one of the British Isles and the other of Yorkshire, the latter derived from Saxton. To confuse things further the title page of this edition is signed 'Guilielmus noster Janssonius', which is the Latinized form of Blaeu's name commonly used up to 1619.
At some time after this the plates came into the possession of Speed's publishers, George Humble, who in 1627, the year in which he published a major edition of Speed's Atlas, also issued the Keere maps as a pocket edition. For these he used the descriptive texts of the larger Speed maps and thereafter they were known as Miniature Speeds. In fact, of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original van den Keere plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further re-issues up to 1676.
