Cornelis Visscher
Masterful Dutch Golden Age engraver
Cornelis Visscher, was a Dutch Golden Age engraver and the brother of Jan de Visscher and Lambert Visscher. 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. Houbraken mentioned that his works could be seen in the collection of the rich Dutch East India Company 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, 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. He made a series of portraits in print of religious figures from Amsterdam and Haarlem. He joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1653. He influenced Dirk Helmbreker and Cornelis Bega. His pupil was Jan Aelbertsz Riethoorn.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Pieter Claesz Soutman Master
- Hendrik Bary Student
Fellow student
Influenced
- Cornelis Bega Influenced
Siblings
- Jan de Visscher Unknown
Artworks by this artist
- Bildnis des Robert Junius in seinem vorletzten, 48. Lebensjahr ca 1654
- Portrait of a Young Man 17th century
- Junger Mann mit Hut, Brustbild nach rechts
- Stehender Mann auf einen Stuhl gestützt
- Bust of Young Man with Hat
- Two Boys with a Puppy mid-17th century
- A Gypsy Mother with Three Children 1650s
- Kopf eines Jünglings mit umgelegtem Kragen
- Kopf eines alten Mannes mit kurzem Bart und Haupthaar
- Bildnis eines Knaben als Hirtenjunge 1653
- Der Heilige Petrus in einem Buche lesend
- Portrait of a boy 1658
- Portrait of a Woman 1658
- Portrait of a Lady mid-17th century
- Alte Frau mit schwarzer Haube und großem weißem Kragen
- Two Boys with a Puppy mid-17th century
- Der Heilige Petrus, die linke Hand auf einem Buche und den Schlüssel haltend, die rechte auf der Brust