In 1572 Lampsonius published under his own name a set of 23 engraved portraits of artists from the Low Countries under the title "Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae inferioris effigies" (literal translation: "Effigies of some celebrated painters of Lower Germany"). Lampsonius provided poems in Latin to accompany the individual portraits. This work was under preparation by the leading Antwerp publisher Hieronymous Cock who died before it was completed. It was then published by Cock's widow Volcxken Dierix who continued the publishing business after her husband's death.