# Hieronymus Wierix artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Death date: 1619-11-21
- Nationality: Flemish
- Movements: Northern Mannerism, Flemish Renaissance
- Common media: copperplate engraving, drawing, print publishing

## About Hieronymus Wierix

Hieronymus Wierix (c. 1553–1619) was a Flemish engraver, draughtsman, and publisher active in Antwerp during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. A member of the prominent Wierix family of engravers—which included his brothers Jan and Antonie II—Hieronymus is recognized for his finely detailed reproductive copperplate engravings after compositions by leading artists of his era, most notably Albrecht Dürer. The Wierix workshop played a significant role in disseminating Netherlandish artistic ideas across Europe through widely circulated prints. Hieronymus produced work in service of both Protestant and Catholic patrons at different moments in his career, reflecting the religious tensions of the Southern Netherlands. His engravings encompass devotional imagery, allegorical scenes, portraits, and reproductive plates after Italian and Northern Renaissance masters. He was buried in Antwerp's St. Jacob's Church on 21 November 1619.

## Common works and media

Hieronymus Wierix's output consists primarily of copperplate engravings on paper. Common subjects include religious and devotional scenes (Virgin and Child, Passion of Christ, lives of saints), allegorical compositions, portrait prints, and reproductive engravings after paintings and drawings by Albrecht Dürer, Marten de Vos, and other Northern and Italian Renaissance masters. Series of small-format devotional plates and larger individual compositions are both encountered in auction and collection contexts.

## Market and appraisal context

Prints by Hieronymus Wierix appear regularly in Old Master print auctions and works-on-paper sales. Valuation depends on impression quality (early vs. late pulls), plate condition, margins, and the specific subject or series. His reproductive engravings after Dürer and other celebrated masters attract particular collector interest. Attribution can be challenging, as the three Wierix brothers shared similar techniques and sometimes collaborated; specialist cataloguing is recommended. Collectors should also consider rarity relative to the number of known impressions of a given plate, provenance history, and the presence of watermarks that help date impressions.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research from library authority files, museum records, and scholarly databases with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Hieronymus Wierix, identity data draws on the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, Getty Union List of Artist Names, VIAF, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/84225
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500025214
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/121830958/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2778104
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Wierix
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96038520