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The article focuses on Sadelers may be famous for their production of superior engravings for elite patrons, as well as numerous additional projects and known to have made numerous book illustrations, their self-identification as booksellers and publication of various illustrated texts.

The article reports that when the engraver Charles de Mallery was 60 years old, Anthony van Dyck portrayed him at least three times in a black chalk drawing, an oil sketch and a large painting and his oil sketch served as the basis for Lucas Vorsterman engraving of De Mallery in Van Dyck's potrait.