Portrait of Jan Baptist Houwaert, Bust portrait in oval of the Brussels writer, scholar and politician Jan Baptist Houwaert (1533-1599): a man with beard and moustache, seen on the right, in armor. Below the oval a coat of arms. Around the oval an ornamental border with edge writing (the name of the sitter and his motto 'wood medium mate') and a woman with a lyre (Musica), a woman with a book (Rhetorica), a woman with a compass (Geometria) and a woman writing down numbers (Aritmetica)., print, print maker: anonymous, after print by: Johannes Wierix, print maker: Low Countries, (possibly

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Photo credit: © Penta Springs / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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