HOEFNAGEL, JORIS (1542-160o), Dutch painter, de signer and traveller, the son of a diamond merchant, was born at Antwerp. He was a pupil of Jan Bol. He travelled abroad often in the company of the famous geographer Abraham Ortelius, studying and making drawings of countries, the people, their cos tumes and customs. He visited France, Spain, England and Italy. He was afterwards patronized by the elector of Bavaria at Munich, where he stayed eight years, and by the Emperor Ru dolph II. at Prague. He is famous for his miniature work, espe cially on a missal in the Imperial library at Vienna ; he painted animals and plants to illustrate works on natural history; and his illustrations (especially for Braun's Civitates orbis terraruirs, 1572), give him a place among early topographical draughtsmen.