Gijsbert van Veen

Gijsbrecht or Gijsbert van Veen (1558–1630) was a Dutch Renaissance painter and engraver, the brother of Otto van Veen. Born in Leiden (County of Holland), he travelled through Italy as a young man and settled in Brussels (Duchy of Brabant), where he died. Van Veen's engraving entitled Præstigiator (1588), showing an Indian medicine man in the midst of a ritual dance, was based on an earlier watercolor painting by John White. The image is one of a series that portrayed the lives of the Algonquian-speaking Indians in the Outer Banks region of present-day North Carolina.

Gijsbert van Veen

Gijsbrecht or Gijsbert van Veen (1558–1630) was a Dutch Renaissance painter and engraver, the brother of Otto van Veen. Born in Leiden (County of Holland), he travelled through Italy as a young man and settled in Brussels (Duchy of Brabant), where he died. Van Veen's engraving entitled Præstigiator (1588), showing an Indian medicine man in the midst of a ritual dance, was based on an earlier watercolor painting by John White. The image is one of a series that portrayed the lives of the Algonquian-speaking Indians in the Outer Banks region of present-day North Carolina.