Albert Flamen

Who is Albert Flamen?

Albert Flamen was a Dutch engraver. Very little is known about Flamen; indeed, historians have previously argued that he was Flemish, and recent scholarship has tended to call him French, as his prints were published in Paris. The most comprehensive recent study of Flamen contends on the basis of biographical data drawn from the FIchier Laborde housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris that in all likelihood he was born some time before 1620.

Flamen was a prolific engraver who produced works for a number of patrons including Guillaume Tronson, Conseiller du Roy; Gilles Foucquet, son of Nicolas and also Conseiller du Roy; Monsieur le marquis d’Illiers, de Chantemelle; Monsieur de Seue, Abbé de l’Isle; as Catherine Levesque has pointed out, these patrons tended to be closely allied to the Royalist cause during the struggles known collectively as "La Fronde".