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(5) Justus [Josse] Sadeler
(b Antwerp, ?1583 or ?1572–9; d ?Leiden (or ?Venice), ?c. 1620). Engraver and print dealer, son of (1) Jan Sadeler I. He was a pupil and assistant of his father, whom he followed to Munich and then to Italy, where he was in 1596. In 1601 Justus was recorded in Venice, where he spent the greatest part of his career; after his father’s death, he took over the publishing and print dealing businesses. He was chiefly active selling prints and paintings. He had dealings with the Dukes of Gonzaga. He stopped at Augsburg in 1611, during a trip via Frankfurt am Main to Venice. In 1620 he travelled with the ambassador of the Venetian Republic to the northern Netherlands to do business with publishers in Amsterdam.
Part of the Sadeler family
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