Wallerant Vaillant

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Self-portrait with turban; 1655–60, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
Self-portrait with helmet around 1655
Wallerant Vaillant: The painter Maria van Oosterwijk , 1671

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

Life

Wallerant Vaillant was born in 1623 as the eldest of five sons of a merchant in Lille in what is now French Flanders. He was trained as a portrait painter by Erasmus Quellinus II (1607–1678) in Antwerp. After his training, he worked as a painter in Frankfurt am Main, Heidelberg, Paris and Berlin, where he portrayed the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm and his wife Luise Henriette von Oranien , among others . His artistic importance lies less in his paintings than in his roughly 200 mezzotint etchings . He learned this mezzotint technique, which was new at the time, in 1658 from Prince Ruprecht of the Palatinate , whom he met during his stay in Frankfurt and who had been experimenting with it for some time. He improved this extremely elaborate technique from the work of David Tenier and Gerard ter Borch as well as from his own designs. Vaillant's brothers and half-brothers included several artists, Jacques (1625–1691), Jan (1627–1668 +), Bernard (1632–1698), and Andries (1655–1693), who mainly worked as portrait painters and graphic artists and were pupils of him were. From 1659 he lived in Paris for five years. He then settled in Amsterdam, where he received numerous portrait commissions from the De Graeff , Bicker and Valckenier families . He died in Amsterdam in 1677.

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SURNAME Vaillant, Wallerant
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch engraver and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1623
PLACE OF BIRTH Lille , France
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1677
Place of death Amsterdam , Netherlands