# MECKENEM, Israhel van the Younger [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: ?–1503 - Profession: graphic artist - School: German ## Biography German engraver, the son of an engraver of the same name, active c. 1450-65. He was trained by his father and probably by Master E.S., whose work he copied. His oeuvre is bigger than that of any other 15th-century engraver; he is known to have made more than 600 plates, and in some instances over a hundred prints have been preserved from each plate. Like many early engravers, he also worked as a goldsmith. Although he was a minor figure as a creative artist \(much of his work consisted of copies\), he is important in showing the growing popularity of engraving. He was the first artist to engrave his own features \(in a double portrait together with his wife\) and looks a very shrewd individual. ## Related artworks - [Dance at the Court of Herod]() - [Mass of St Gregory]() - [Morris Dance]() - [The Artist and His Wife Ida]() - [The Artist and his Wife Ida]() - [The Lute Player and the Harpist]() - [Vera icon]() - [Visit to the Spinner]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()