 He probably trained in engraving with Master E. S. in South Germany, and may well have been with him at his death c. 1467, since he acquired and reworked forty-one of the master's plates.Another two hundred of van Meckenem's "own" prints were also copies of Master E. S. engravings.He copied many other printmakers, but it is thought that he engraved some 150 of his own original compositions.