According to Cornelis de Bie's book of artist biographies Het Gulden Cabinet he and his brothers Jan and Antoine were all engravers.
Hadrianus Junius, otherwise known as Adriaen de Jonghe, wrote this story around 1567 in his book Batavia, published only in 1588, and was quoted by Cornelis de Bie.
Cornelis de Bie wrote a commemorative poem to his art on page 491 of his book Het Gulden Cabinet
Palamedes primarily painted battle scenes that were mentioned in Cornelis de Bie's Het Gulden Cabinet.
Cornelis Johannes van Houten | Cornelis Tromp | Cornelis de Bie | Cornelis Vreeswijk | Van Kooten en De Bie | Jacob Cornelis Matthieu Radermacher | Henriette Bie Lorentzen | Cornelis Matelief de Jonge | Cornelis Kruseman | Cornelis Johannes Kieviet | Cornelis de Bruijn | ''William Fitzwilliam, Second Lord Fitzwilliam of Liffer'', Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen | Pieter Cornelis Dommersen | Pieter Cornelis Boutens | Johan Cornelis van der Wijck | Cornelis Zitman | Cornelis van Tienhoven | Cornelis Schrevel | Cornelis Marinus Pleyte | Cornelis Lely | Cornelis Jol | Cornelis Johannes van Doorn | Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen | Cornelis Hulsman | Cornelis Elout | Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp | Cornelis Drebbel | Cornelis de Wael | Cornelis de Bondt | Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen |
Cornelis de Bie published his Het Gulden Cabinet in 1662, André Félibien published his Entretiens sur les vies et sur les ouvrages des plus excellents peintres anciens et modernes in 1666, and these were followed by Jacob von Sandrart's illustrated Teutsche Akademie in 1668.