Cornelis de Visscher, by Cornelis de Visscher (1628-29 - 1658)

Cornelis Visscher (1629 in

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– 1658 in Haarlem), was a

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...

engraver and the brother of

Jan de Visscher Jan de Visscher (ca.1636, Haarlem – 1692-1712, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age engraver who became a painter in later life. Biography According to Houbraken he was an able etcher who made famous prints (in his lifetime) after the works ...

and Lambert Visscher.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was an able etcher who made famous prints (in his lifetime), and who had an unusual talent for drawing after a live model with charcoal that was unparalleled.J. Paul Getty
Museum Houbraken mentioned that his works could be seen in the collection of the rich

Dutch East India Company The United East India Company ( nl, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock ...

director and art collector in Amsterdam who had a large art cabinet, Jeronimus Tonneman. Prints by Visscher's hand were made after various famous painters from Haarlem such as

Nicolaes Berchem Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre ...

, Adriaen van Ostade, Pieter van Laer and Adriaen Brouwer. According to the RKD he had two brothers, Jan de Visscher and Lambert Visscher (1633-ca.1690), and he was the pupil of

Pieter Claesz Soutman Pieter Claesz Soutman (1593-1601 – 16 August 1657)

.Cornelis Visscher (II)
in the RKD He made a series of portraits in print of religious figures from Amsterdam and Haarlem. He joined the

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in 1653. He influenced Dirk Helmbreker and

Cornelis Bega Cornelis Pietersz Bega, or ''Cornelis Pietersz Begijn'' (1631/32 – 27 August 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver. Bega was born, lived and worked in Haarlem and was the son of sculptor and goldsmith Pieter Jansz. Begijn. H ...

. His pupil was Jan Aelbertsz Riethoorn.

Other Cornelis Visscher

Houbraken mentions Kornelis de Visscher from Hamburg, a popular engraver in Amsterdam, who drowned at sea. This other Cornelis Visscher is known in the RKD as ''Cornelis de Visscher'' who painted portraits that were later engraved by others. He drowned at sea in 1586 on the way back from Hamburg. He was originally from

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. Cornelis de Bie mentions a Cornelis Visscher

Het Gulden Cabinet ''Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const'' or ''The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting'' is a book by the 17th-century Flemish notary and ''Chamber of rhetoric, rederijker'' Cornelis de Bie published in Antwerp. Writte ...

, p 461 who included fishermen in his engravings. This was done by the famous mapmaker Visscher family and was started by Claes Jansz Visscher. It is unknown whether the Haarlem and Gouda Cornelis Visschers were related to the Amsterdam mapmaking family. However, De Bie corrected the name on p. 524 to 'Jan Claessen de Visscher'

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Visscher, Cornelis 1629 births 1658 deaths Painters from Haarlem Artists from Haarlem Dutch Golden Age printmakers