Philip (or Philips) Galle (1537 - 1612)

• Was a Dutch publisher.
• He is best known for publishing old master prints, which he also produced as designer and engraver.
• He is especially known for his reproductive engravings of paintings.
• In Haarlem he engraved several works of the Haarlem painter Maarten van Heemskerck.
• Even while he worked from 1557 for the Antwerp publisher Hieronymus Cock, he established himself as an independent printer in Haarlem in 1563, where he made prints after Johannes Stradanus and Maerten de Vos.
• His pupils included his children, de Hooghe, Hendrick Goltzius, Jan Baptist Barbé, Pieter Nagel, the sons of his colleague Hans Collaert Adriaen and Jan, and Karel van Mallery.
• His sons and sons-in-law carried on the business at Antwerp through the seventeenth century.
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