David Loggan was an English

United Kingdom

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 baroque

Baroque

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 engraver, draughtsman and painter

Painting

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He was baptized 27 August 1634 in Danzig

Gdansk

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

, then a semi-autonomous city (granted by the Danzig law) within Prussian Poland (Prusy Królewskie) and a member of the Hanseatic League

Hanseatic League

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. His parents were English and Scottish, probably merchants or refugees.

The young David first studied in Danzig

Gdansk

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

 under Willem Hondius

Willem Hondius

Willem Hondius or Willem Hondt was a Dutch engraver, cartographer and painter.-Life:...

, and later in Amsterdam under Crispijn van de Passe II

Van de Passe family

Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, or de Passe was a Dutch publisher and engraver and founder of a dynasty of engravers comparable to the Wierix family and the Sadelers, though mostly at a more mundane commercial level...

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