Roelant Roghman - Valley with Travellers - WGA19658

Roelant Roghman (14 March 1627 - 3 January 1692) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, sketcher and engraver.RKD - Dutch bureau for art history
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Biography

Roghman was born in Amsterdam, the son of the engraver Henrick Lambertsz Roghman and Maria Jacobs Savery. His mother was a daughter of the

Savery Savery is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Constance Savery (1897-1999), English author * Gil Savery (1917-2018), American journalist * Henry Savery (1791–1842), Australian novelist * Jan Savery (1589–1654), Flemish paint ...

family, and Roghman became a student of his namesake and great-uncle,

Roelant Savery Roelant Savery (or ''Roeland(t) Maertensz Saverij'', or ''de Savery'', or many variants; 1576 – buried 25 February 1639) was a Flanders-born Dutch Golden Age painter. Life Savery was born in Kortrijk. Like so many other artists, he belonge ...

. According to Houbraken, he only had one eye, but painted in a rough and ready way, that perhaps was the result of his eyesight. He specialized in landscapes, and in later life became a history buff, working on several prints of old castle ruins and defunct family estates based on drawings he made during travels in his youth. He was a follower of Rembrandt and Hercules Seghers. Houbraken claimed that in his youth he had been a friend of Rembrandt and Gerbrant van den Eekhout.Roelant Rogman biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the

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Roghman worked on one of his print series with his sister Geertruydt in (ca. 1645-1648), under the title ''Plaisante Landschappen'' (pleasant landscapes) by the printer

Claes Jansz Visscher Claes Janszoon Visscher (1587 – 19 June 1652) was a Dutch Golden Age draughtsman, engraver, mapmaker, and publisher. He was the founder of the successful Visscher family mapmaking business. The firm that he established in Amsterdam would be p ...

. His other sister Magdalena was also an engraver. Their landscape series of more than 200 prints, showing mostly castles and landed estates in the Dutch provinces of North Holland and Utrecht, were very popular. He never married, and died a resident of the old men's almshouse in Amsterdam. Aside from his sisters, he was the teacher of Jan Griffier and Pieter Wouwerman.

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North-Holland archives with online images by RoghmanUtrecht archives with online images by RoghmanWorks and literature
at PubHist {{DEFAULTSORT:Roghman, Roelant 1627 births 1692 deaths Engravers from Amsterdam Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Amsterdam