Antoon van der Does

Antoon van der Does or Antoni van der Does (1609 in Antwerp – 1680 in Antwerp) was a Flemish engraver and print maker who was active in Antwerp. He is mainly known as a reproductive artist.

Life Some 19th-century art historians believed that Antony van der Does was a native of The Hague in the Dutch Republic and was related to the van der Does family of painters. Antony was, however, born in Antwerp where he was baptized on 10 March 1609. There are no indications of a family link with the Dutch van der Does family.

Antony van der Does commenced his study of engraving as a pupil of Jan Collaert II in 1627. In September 1630 he joined the Society of the Aged Bachelors (Sodaliteit der Bejaarde Jongmans), a fraternity for bachelors established by the Jesuit order.

Work He had a reputation for his engraved portraits. He sometimes used the monogram "AVD".

He made around 1650 a print satirizing the publication of different bible editions by the Dutch Calvinist Albrecht Hendriksen in Delft in 1579 and the Dutch New Reformed Church minister J. Canin in Dordrecht in 1580. The print was used by the Flemish Catholic polemicist Aernout van Geluwe in his book the Vlaemschen boer (Flemish Peasant) published in Antwerp in 1652. The print shows Aernout of Gheluwe pulling a curtain on the left revealing the Old Bible of John Calvin and another on the right revealing the New Bible of the New Reformed preacher.

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