Michel le Blon

Name:	Michel le Blon
Name variants:	Michiel le Blond / Blondus
Gender:	male
Born:	Frankfurt am Main baptized on 1587-07-09
Died:	Amsterdam buried on 1658-05-03
Father:	Christiaan le Blon (ca. 1570 - ca. 1650)
Mother:	Ursula Sandrart (? - 1600)

Marriage:

Margarita Martens Houtmans (? - 1677), Amsterdam 1615-05-23

Children:

Occupations:

Occupational addresses:

Frankfurt am Main (1605-1610)
Amsterdam (1610-1627)
Italië (1627-1627)
Amsterdam (1628-1647)
Londen (1632-1632)
Zweden (1647-1649)
Amsterdam (1649-1658)

Attributes

Category	Attribute	Value
Religion	Denomination	Reformed
Subject of painting	Ornament	grotesken
Subject of painting	Ornament	ornamenten
Subject of painting	Ornament	stads- en familiewapens

Relations

Relation	Modifier	Date start	Date end
Artistic
portrayed Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert		1630	1630
portrayed by Anthony van Dyck, alias: Anthonie / Anthonis van Dijck		1644	1644
worked under commission for Carel Hellemans, alias: Carlo Hellemans		1625	1625
Business
is employee of Christina I van Zweden
is employee of Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna		1632	1654
Education and training
pupil of Johan Theodoor de Bry, alias: Jan	certain
pupil of Theodoor de Bry, alias: Dirk de Brij	certain
Friendship
agent for Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie
agent for Carl Gustaf Wrangel
agent for Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna		1632	1654
assisted at marriage Cornelis le Blon		1643-07-02	1643-07-02
contributed to the album amicorum of Gerard Thibault
contributed to the album amicorum of Gottfridt Müller, alias: Gotfried Müller		1618	1618

References

External biographical records

Primary sources

Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam: DTB-registers (toegangsnummer 5001), 763: 38 (extra-ordinaris)

Secondary sources

Groenendijk, Pieter, Beknopt biografisch lexicon van Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse schilders, graveurs, glasschilders, tapijtwevers et cetera van ca. 1350 tot ca. 1720, Leiden: Primavera (2008)
De la Fontaine Verwey, H., 'Michel le Blon, graveur, kunsthandelaar, diplomaat', Jaarboek Amstelodamum 61 (1969), pp. 103-125
Keblusek, Marika, 'The business of news: Michel le Blon and the transmission of political information to Sweden in the 1630s', Scandinavian Journal of History 28; 3-4 (2003), pp. 205-213
De Vries Azn., A.D., 'Biografische aanteekeningen, betreffende voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne verwanten', Oud-Holland 4 (1886), pp. 71-80, 135-144, 215-224, 295-304, 303
Lilien, Otto M., Jacob Christoph Le Blon, 1667-1741: inventor of three- and four colour printing, [Bibliothek des Buchwesens 9], Stuttgart: Hiersemann (1985)
Meißner, Günter, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, Teil 11, München-Leipzig: Saur (1995)
De Roever, N., 'Losse aanteekeningen betreffende Amsterdamsche graveurs. Eerste vervolg', Archief voor Nederlandsche Kunstgeschiedenis 2 (1879-1880), pp. 161-168, 162
De Roever, N., 'Losse aanteekeningen betreffende Amsterdamsche graveurs. Tweede vervolg', Archief voor Nederlandsche Kunstgeschiedenis 3 (1880-1881), pp. 221-225, 221
Waller, F.G., Biographisch woordenboek van Noord Nederlandsche graveurs, 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff (1938). <URL: https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB06:000001910>, 32
De La Fontaine Verwey, Herman, 'Gerard Thibault and his Academie de l'espée', Quaerendo 8 (1978), pp. 283-319
Badeloch Noldus, 'Loyalty and betrayal. Artist-agents Michel le Blon and Pieter Isaacsz, and chancellor Axel Oxenstierna.', in: Hans Cools, Marika Keblusek & Badeloch Noldus (eds.) Your humble servant. Agents in early modern Europe., Hilversum: Verloren (2006), pp. 51-64
Turner, Jane (ed.) The dictionary of art (34 vols.), London: Macmillan; New York: Grove (1996)
De Vries Azn., A.D., 'Biografische aanteekeningen, betreffende voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne verwanten', Oud-Holland 3 (1885), pp. 55-80, 135-160, 223-240, 303-312, 64