(b Mechelen, c. 1540; d Cologne, c. 1590). Painter, engraver, etcher and publisher, son of (1) Nicolas Hogenberg. He was probably a pupil of the cartographer H. Terbruggen in Mechelen but later worked in Antwerp, producing such engravings as the Allegory with Fortune (1561; Hollstein, no. 39), the Battle between Lent and Carnival (etching, 1558; published by Hieronymous Cock, H 40), the Fools’ Dance (H 41), and a portrait of Mary I, Queen of England (1554; H 54). It was probably in Antwerp that he executed several maps for the Theatrum orbis terrarum of Abraham Ortelius, which was published in 1570 (H 131). It is also possible that he travelled to Poitiers in 1560, as his name and that date appear on an engraving by Joris Hoefnagel of the ‘Celtic Stone’ at Poitiers. A visit to England is suggested by the 1568 engraved portrait of William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1568; H 43). Also from the period are the portraits of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (H 45) and Elizabeth, Queen of England (H 46); all three portraits were published in the ‘Bishop’s Bible’ of Matthew Parker (1568). Hogenberg also engraved two Views of the Royal Exchange in London (H 58, 59).

Part of the Hogenberg family

• Hogenberg, Franz
  • Hogenberg
  • Military architecture and fortification, §III, 4(ii): Medieval and Renaissance designers & theoreticians
  • collaboration
    • Ring, tom: (2) Hermann tom Ring
    • Topography, §2(i): Descriptive art, before c 1650
  • works
    • Atlas
    • Belgium, §III, 3(i)(b): Painting, c 1550–c 1600
    • Bird’s-eye view
    • Bruegel: (1) Pieter Bruegel I, §II, 1(i): Paintings, 1553–60
    • Cologne, §I, 3: History and urban development, 1794 and after
    • Hoefnagel, Joris, §1: Antwerp, 1542–76
    • Rogel, Hans, I
    • Toeput, Lodewijk