Keere, Pieter van den [Kaerius, Petrus]
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...
Född 1810 7/4 i Lund, död 1876 12/10 i Jönköping.
Fanjunkare vid Södra Skånska Infanteriregementet. Gravör. Son av Peter Magnus Billman och Catharina Elisabeth Roth. Guldsmedslärling i Lund, Malmö och 1852 i Stockholm, övergick sedermera till den militära banan, som han dock lämnade 1840, då han började en ny verksamhet som kringresande gravör. »Hans yrkesfärdighet var konstnärens.» (Jönköpings Tidning 1844 13/7.)
Bland arbeten.
Utsikter, kartor, växlar, adress- och visitkort.
Hultmark, 1944.
Se de LISLE, GUILLAUME.
Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.
'...Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae...' - de Wit 1688.
Påven Paulus III:s tillståndsbevis för Olaus Magnus: