(b Antwerp, c. 1510; d Antwerp, 3 Oct 1570). Etcher, print publisher and dealer, son of (1) Jan Wellens de Cock and brother of (2) Matthijs Cock. He was received into the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1546. He probably made a trip to Rome before 1550, the date when he etched and published a series of 25 views of Roman ruins (Riggs, nos 1–25). In 1548 he published a set of ornament designs by Cornelis Floris engraved by Balthazar van den Bos, and over the next two decades more than 1100 prints appeared bearing his name as publisher (Hieronymus Cock excudit) or that of his publishing house, Aux Quatre Vents (At the Sign of the Four Winds). According to van Mander, he also commissioned and dealt in paintings and became rich through these commercial activities.

Part of the Cock family

• Cock, Hieronymus (Wellens)
  • Antwerp, §II, 1: Art life and organization, before 1585
  • Belgium, §III, 3(i)(a): Painting, c 1550–c 1600
  • Belgium, §III, 3(i)(b): Painting, c 1550–c 1600
  • Bruegel: (1) Pieter Bruegel I, §II, 2: Drawings and prints
  • Cock
  • Doetechum, van
  • Engraving, §II, 3(ii): Commercial growth, c 1500–c 1600
  • Forgery, §II, 1: Authentication techniques: Connoisseurship
  • Lombard, Lambert
  • Prints, §IV, 2: Publishers
  • Reproduction of works of art, §2(i): 15th–17th centuries
  • collaboration
    • Vredeman de Vries, Hans, §2(i): Designs
  • printmakers
    • Huys
    • Bol, Hans
      • Bol, Hans
    • Bos, Balthazar van den
      • Bos, Balthasar van den
    • Bosch, Hieronymus
      • Bosch, Hieronymus, §II, 1: Work and iconography: Religious
    • Bruegel, Pieter, I (c. 1525/30-1569)
      • Bruegel: (1) Pieter Bruegel I
      • Bruegel: (1) Pieter Bruegel I, §I, 3: The southern Netherlands, 1555–69
      • Bruegel: Family tree
    • Collaert, Hans, I (c. 1530-81)
      • Collaert
    • Cort (van Hoorn), Cornelis
      • Cort, Cornelis
    • Floris, Cornelis, II (1513-75)
      • Floris: (1) Cornelis Floris II
    • Floris, Frans
      • Floris: (2) Frans Floris I, §2: Working methods and studio
    • Gassel, Lucas
      • Gassel, Lucas
    • Ghisi, Giorgio
      • Ghisi: (1) Giorgio Ghisi
    • Heemskerck, Maarten van
      • Heemskerck, Maarten van, §3(ii): Later career in Haarlem, 1537–74: Drawings for prints
      • Valle, Andrea della
    • Heyden, Pieter van der
      • Heyden, Pieter van der
    • Hogenberg, Franz
      • Bruegel: (1) Pieter Bruegel I, §II, 1(i): Paintings, 1553–60
      • Hogenberg: (2) Franz Hogenberg
    • Huys, Frans
      • Huys: (2) Frans Huys
    • Visscher, Claes Jansz. (1587-1652)
      • Visscher, Claes Jansz.
  • pupils
    • Galle: (1) Philip Galle
    • Gheeraerts: (1) Marcus Gheeraerts (i)
  • reproductive prints by others
    • Habsburg, §II: (4) Margaret, Regent of the Netherlands
  • works
    • Bronzino, Agnolo, §3: Critical reception and posthumous reputation
    • Chile, §III, 1: Painting, graphic arts and sculpture: The colonial period, before 1818
    • Landscape painting, §II, 4(ii): 16th century: The Netherlands
    • Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of the Small Landscapes
    • Prints, §II, 1(vii): Subject-matter, before c 1700: Topographical
    • Rome, §III, 4: Art life and organization, 1503–1600
    • Strapwork
    • Topography, §2(i): Descriptive art, before c 1650