Aegidius Sadeler or Aegidius Sadeler II (1570–1629)

• Was a Flemish engraver.
• Sadeler was born in Antwerp in the Sadeler family of print dealers and engravers.
• He was trained by his uncle Jan I and became a member of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1589.
• He was active in Munich the next year in 1590, in Rome in 1593, in Naples and then again in Munich in 1594–1597.
• From 1597 he settled in Prague where he became court engraver for Rudolf II.
• He made engraved portraits of notables and engravings after artworks there, most notably paintings by Bartholomeus Spranger, Roelant Savery, Hans von Aachen, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and sculptures by Giambologna and Adriaen de Vries.
• After Rudolf II died he enjoyed the favour and protection of the two succeeding Emperors, Matthias and Ferdinand II.
• Sadeler died in Prague in 1629.
• He had many pupils, including Wenzel Hollar and Joachim von Sandrart, who wrote his biography.
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