It is said that he was a pupil and assistant of Wenceslaus Hollar, and some of the prints which bear his name as the publisher have been assumed to be his own work; but there is no actual evidence that he ever practised engraving.
This sarcophagus was recorded in a series of drawings by Wenceslaus Hollar, published in Dugdale's History of St Paul's.
In addition, there is an outstanding collection of etchings by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677) from the collection of Sidney Thomson Fisher.
Wenceslaus Hollar | Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia | Wenceslaus III of Bohemia | Wenceslaus III | Wenceslaus I of Bohemia | Wenceslaus II | Wenceslaus of Płock | Wenceslaus Linck | Wenceslaus II of Bohemia | Wenceslaus III Adam | Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg | Wenceslaus I | St. Stanislaus and St. Wenceslaus's Cathedral | Sacred Heart-Saint Wenceslaus Church | Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony | ''Golden Remains'', etched by Wenceslaus Hollar |
Abaris is renowned for its definitive collections of titles in art history and other subjects, and for its cataloguing of renowned artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Marcantonio Raimondi, Jean Duvet, Wenceslaus Hollar, Antonio Tempesta, The Carraccis, and Caravaggio.
He painted historical subjects and portraits, and made some of the designs for the plates which Wenceslaus Hollar engraved for Robert Stapylton's edition of Juvenal, published in 1660.
He was an intimate friend and a pupil of Francis Cleyn, the manager of the Mortlake Tapestry Works, and etched numerous plates in the style of Wenceslaus Hollar, after Cleyn's designs; these include a set of eleven plates, etched in 1653, entitled "Variæ Deorum Ethnicorum Effigies, or Divers Portraicturs of Heathen Gods", a set of four representing "The Seasons", a similar set of "The Four Cardinal Virtues", and a set of fourteen plates of grotesques and arabesques.