Adriaen Matham - Banket van de officieren van de Cluveniersdoelen, 1627

Adriaen Matham (1590 – 1660) 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 art and ...

painter, engraver and art dealer. He was part of an embassy to the Saadi dynasty of Morocco and also made some engravings while there. He married three times, once in

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and later lived in

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in the 1650s before his death.

Biography

He was born in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

as the son of the engraver Jacob Matham and his wife Marijtgen or Maria van Poelenburgh.Adriaen Matham
in the RKD He was the brother of the engravers Jan and Theodor Matham, and became a member of the Haarlem St. Adriaen civic guard from 1624 to 1627. In 1620 he engraved a series of prints on the

Counts of Holland The counts of Holland ruled over the County of Holland in the Low Countries between the 10th and the 16th century. House of Holland The first count of Holland, Dirk I, was the son or foster-son of Gerolf, Count in Frisia (Dijkstra suggests th ...

that were only published after his death in 1663. He was painted by

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century grou ...

in his role as flag-bearer of the guard in 1627. He made drawings after Hals' paintings, most notably his sketch of a portrait of

Isaac Massa Isaac Abrahamszoon Massa (baptized October 7, 1586, in Haarlem, died 1643) was a Dutch grain trader, traveller and envoy to Russia. He wrote memoirs related to the Time of Troubles and created some of the earliest maps of Eastern Europe and Siberi ...

(a merchant to Russia) and his sketch of Pieter van den Broecke. In 1640, Matham was a member of a Dutch embassy to the

king of Morocco This is the list of rulers of Morocco, since the establishment of the state in 789. The common and formal titles of these rulers has varied, depending on the time period. Since 1957, the designation King has been used. The present King of Mor ...

Mohammed esh Sheikh es Seghir Mohammed esh Sheikh es Seghir () (? – 30 January 1655) was the sultan of Morocco from (1636 – 1655) under the Saadi dynasty. Life His father was Zidan al-Nasir (r. 1603–1627), he was the son of a Spanish mother and he had two Spanish w ...

, led by

Antonius de Liedekerke Antonius de Liedekerke, also Antonie Charles de Liedekercke (1587–1661) was a Dutch sea captain and ambassador to the court of the king of Morocco Mohammed esh Sheikh es Seghir in the 17th century. Liedekerke was born in Antwerp. In 1627 ...

.''Marrakesh: The Secret of Courtyard Houses'' Quentin Wilbaux p.95''ff''
/ref> They were received by

Jan Janszoon Jan Janszoon van Haarlem, commonly known as Reis Mourad the Younger (c. 1570 – c. 1641), was an Ottoman and Salé Rovers Dutch pirate in Algeria and Morocco who converted to Islam after being captured by a Moorish state in 1618. He began ser ...

, a notorious pirate, who was visited by his daughter Lysbeth and her husband. Then the embassy visited the king in

Marrakesh Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakes ...

. Adriaen Matham made a famous drawing and an engraving of the

El Badi Palace El Badi Palace ( ar, قصر البديع, lit=Palace of Wonder/Brilliance, also frequently translated as the "Incomparable Palace") or Badi' Palace is a ruined palace located in Marrakesh, Morocco. It was commissioned by the sultan Ahmad al-Man ...

, before it was destroyed. He also visited the harbour of Mogador in 1641, where he noted the presence of Jews, who were trading with the Netherlands and England. He made many sketches of fish that he saw on his travels. On his return journey to the Netherlands, he visited

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, with the crew of another ship on board, who had been kept in Morocco as slaves. He lived in

as an art dealer around the year 1654. Adriaen collaborated with or sold his work to the cartographer

Joan Blaeu Joan Blaeu (; 23 September 1596 – 21 December 1673) was a Dutch cartographer born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu. Life In 1620, Blaeu became a doctor of law but he joined the work of his father. In 1635, they published ...

. and worked for

Adriaen van de Venne Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 – 12 November 1662), was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects, and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book illustrator, designer of political satires, and versifier. Biog ...

Works

*
Voyage dʹAdrien Matham au Maroc (1640-1641)
' by Adriaen Matham (compiled in French by Ferdinand de Hellwald).

Gallery

File:32 afbeeldinge der Graven van HOLLANDT.jpg, Titlepage of the Counts of Holland series (based on earlier work by Philips Galle and probably as a tribute, showing Galle's "Maiden Holland" at the top, 1663 File:Castelo Real Adriaen Matham 1641.jpg, Castelo Real of

Mogador Essaouira ( ; ar, الصويرة, aṣ-Ṣawīra; shi, ⵜⴰⵚⵚⵓⵔⵜ, Taṣṣort, formerly ''Amegdul''), known until the 1960s as Mogador, is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. It ...

, by Adriaen Matham, 1641 File:Temptress woman, devil, alchemist, by Andriaen Matham.jpg, ''Temptress woman, devil, alchemist'', by Adriaen Matham''Darke hierogliphicks'' by Stanton J. Linden p.50
/ref>

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Adriaen Jacobsz Matham
on

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Matham, Adriaen 1590 births 1660 deaths Artists from Haarlem Dutch draughtsmen Dutch Golden Age printmakers Frans Hals

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