Vandive family
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The Vandive family was a Parisian branch of the Van Dievoet family from Brussels, descended from goldsmith Philippe Van Dievoet, the elder brother of famous Brussels sculptor Peter Van Dievoet. The family were first bourgeois of Paris before becoming part of the French nobility.
Typographic mark of Guillaume Vandive, book printer of the Grand Dauphin, with his motto : "HOC DUCE TUTA SALUS", 1704.
Van Dievoet family
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The Van Dievoet family is a Belgian family originating from the Duchy of Brabant. It descends from the Seven Lineages of Brussels and its members have been bourgeois (freemen) of that city since the 1600s. It formed, at the end of the 17th century, a now extinct Parisian branch which used the name Vandive.
Statue of King James II in Trafalgar Square, London by Peter Van Dievoet and Laurens van der Meulen while they were working in Grinling Gibbons's London workshop. 1683.
Coat of arms of Peter van Dievoet on the roll of arms of the Drapery Court of Brussels.
Typographic mark of Guillaume van Dievoet called Vandive, book printer of Monseigneur the Grand Dauphin, with his motto : "HOC DUCE TUTA SALUS", 1704.
Jean-Baptiste van Dievoet II (1704–1776) husband of Elisabeth van der Meulen, portrait by Trigaux, 1761.