Gilliam van der Gouwen, first name also transcribed as Guilliam and Willem (ca. 1657, Antwerp — buried on 15 March 1716,

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)Gilliam van der Gouwen
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. He is known for his reproductive engravings and various title pages, maps and book illustrations for the Amsterdam publishers.Gilliam van der Gouwen
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Life

He was born in Antwerp around 1657. In the guild year 1669-1670, he was registered at the Antwerp

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studying engraving as a pupil of Pieter van Lisebetten.Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius (ed.), ''De Liggeren en andere Historische Archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde, onder Zinkspreuk: "Wy Jonsten Versaemt" afgeschreven en bemerkt door Ph. Rombouts en Th. Van Lerius, Advokaet, onder de bescherming van den raed van bestuer der koninklyke Akademie van beeldende Kunsten, van gezegde Stad''
Volume 2, Antwerp, 1872, pp. 394, 397 There is no record of van der Gouwen registering as a master in the Antwerp Guild. He left Antwerp and is recorded in Amsterdam where in June 1680 he started taking drawing classes with the German painter Pieter Rodingh. During the period of 14 months that the took the classes, Rodingh also helped him out with two of his engravings. Later a dispute arose between van der Gouwen and Rodingh over payment for the classes as well as for s portrait of van der Gouwen and his wife painted by Rodingh. The matter was amicably settled. He is also said to have studied with

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. He collaborated with de Lairesse on publications such as de Lairesse's ''Het groot schilderboeck'' ("Great Book of Painting"), published in 1710 for which he made the title page and various illustrations. He worked as an assistant in the workshop of the engraver and publisher

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. He made for the sheet music publisher

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various title pages for musical publications. An example is the ''title page of Arcangelo Corelli's Concerti Grossi'' published by Roger in Amsterdam in 1714. The print represents ''St. Cecilia Playing a Lute'' and was made after a design by the Italian painter

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He further engraved many of

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's designs for title pages and book illustrations. He was the teacher of Jan Wandelaar. He worked on a series of biblical prints after designs of

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, Arnold Houbraken and

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. These were used in various publications including the '' Figures de la Bible'' published in 1720 and the '' Taferelen der voornaamste geschiedenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testament'' published in the Hague by

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. The latter publication was a picture bible comprising 214 large engravings of which van der Gouwen had engraved 41.P. van der Coelen, ''De ontstaansgeschiedenis van de prentenbijbel van Hoet, Houbraken en Picart''
in: E. Buijsen e.a. (red.), Kunst op papier in de achttiende eeuw/Art on Paper in the Eighteenth Century. Liber Amicorum aangeboden aan Charles Dumas ter gelegenheid van zijn 65ste verjaardag, Zoetermeer 2014, p. 48-61; p. 51 He married twice. He married Maria Willems in Amsterdam on 8 September 1679. Their daughter Lysbet was born in 1688. His first wife died and was buried in Amsterdsm on 29 July 1700. He married Anna Gerrits in Amsterdam on 19 October 1703. He was buried in Amsterdam on 15 March 1716.

Work

He is known for portraits, allegorical scenes and biblical illustrations. He contributed many illustrations to Hugo de Groot's ''Nederlandtsche jaerboeken en historien'', published in Amsterdam in 1681. An example is the ''Beached whale near Berckhey''. The print was made after an engraving made by

Jacob Matham Jacob Matham (15 October 1571 – 20 January 1631), of Haarlem, was a famous engraver and pen-draftsman. Biography He was the stepson and pupil of painter and draftsman Hendrik Goltzius, and brother-in-law to engraver Simon van Poelenburgh, hav ...

after a design by

Hendrick Goltzius Hendrick Goltzius, or Hendrik, (; ; January or February 1558 – 1 January 1617) was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He was the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period, or Northern Mannerism, lauded for his s ...

.''Gestrande walvis bij Berckhey'', 1598, Gilliam van der Gouwen, after Jacob Matham, after Hendrick Goltzius, 1730
at the Rijksmuseum

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