Gerard Valck (30 September 1652 – 21 October 1726) was a Dutch engraver, publisher and cartographer.
Biography
Valck was born in
Amsterdam
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on 30 September 1652 to an Amsterdam
silversmith
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. He was a student of Abraham Blooteling and later married Blooteling's sister. He went to London with Blooteling in 1672 and may have remained there until 1680. Valck engraved many portraits of English nobility and worked frequently with Blooteling. His earliest dated
mezzotint
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is titled ''Sleeping Cupid'' and was published in 1677. He based many of his engravings and mezzotints after designs by other artists like
Peter Lely
Sir Peter Lely (14 September 1618 – 7 December 1680) was a painter of Dutch origin whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court.
Life
Lely was born Pieter van der Faes to Dutch ...
,
Gérard de Lairesse
Gerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse (11 September 1641 – June 1711) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa and Fr ...
and
Philip Tideman
Philip Tideman (1657–1705) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
Tideman was born in Hamburg. According to Houbraken he learned to paint in Hamburg from Ns Raes, and then became a self-supporting artist with pupils for a year, before ...
. He published most of his works himself. In Amsterdam, he had a close partnership with his son Leonardus Valck and
Peter Schenk the Elder
Petrus Schenck, or Pieter, or Peter Schenk the Elder (baptized: 26 December 1660 – between 12 August and 17 November 1711 in Leipzig) was a German engraver and cartographer active in Amsterdam and Leipzig. Valck also published atlases, maps, printed globes and prints of other things. He died in Amsterdam on 21 October 1726.
Gallery
File:King William III when Prince of Orange by Gerard Valck, after Sir Peter Lely.jpg
File:1672 95 Novus Planiglobii Valck'.jpg
File:Ortensia Mancini, Duchess of Mazarin by Gerard Valck, after Sir Peter Lely.jpg
File:AMH-7675-NA Map of the Gold Coast.jpg
File:King Henry VIII by Gerard Valck, after Adriaen van der Werff.jpg
File:Map italy monferrato CG 52 montiferrati ducatus post 1684.jpg