David de Meyne

David de Meyne (c. 1569 – 1620) was a Dutch cartographer, painter, publisher and art dealer. His early cartographic works combined maps, views and portraits.

Early life and family His family name is sometimes spelled de Moyne / Meijnersen. He later moved to Amsterdam, where he is attested as active from 1594 to 1620, and was reported as living on Nieuw Rockin in 1594. He became a citizen of Amsterdam on 6 August 1596.

On 12 November 1594 he married Janneken Laurens (1577 – 1618) in Amsterdam.

Maps In 1610 he completed Universi Orbis Tabula De-Integro Delineata, a large world map with inset portraits of the circumnavigators Olivier van Noort, Ferdinand Magellan, Francis Drake, and Thomas Cavendish.

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