Wallerant Vaillant

Wallerant Vaillant (* May 30, 1623 in Lille, † August 28, buried on September 2, 1677 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and is considered the first professional Schabkunstradierer.

Life

Wallerant Vaillant was born in 1623, the eldest of five sons of a merchant in Lille in what is now French Flanders. He settled at Erasmus Quellinus II (1607-1678) in Antwerp train as a portrait painter. After his education he worked as a painter in Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Paris and Berlin, where he the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm and his wife Louise Henriette of Orange portrayed among others. His artistic significance lies less in his paintings than in his 200 mezzotint engravings. This time novel mezzotint he learned in 1658 by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, whom he met during his stay in Frankfurt and experimenting for some time on it. From work David Teniers and Gerard ter Borch and by his own designs, he improved this highly complex technology. In Vaillant's brothers and half-brothers were several artists, Jacques (1625-1691), Jean (1627-1668 ), Bernard ( 1632-1698 ), and Andries ( 1655-1693 ), which mainly operate as a portrait painter and graphic artist and student of his were. From 1659 he lived for five years in Paris. He then settled in Amsterdam, where he received numerous portrait orders of the families De Graeff, Bicker and Valckenier. In 1677 he died in Amsterdam.

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