Jacob Matham (15 October 1571 – 20 January 1631), of Haarlem, was a famous engraver and pen- draftsman.
Biography
He was the stepson and pupil of painter and draftsman Hendrik Goltzius, [1] and brother-in-law to engraver Simon van Poelenburgh, having married his sister, Marijtgen. [2] [3] He made several engravings after the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens from 1611 to 1615, [4] and also a series after the work of Pieter Aertsen. [5] In 1613, engraver Jan van de Velde was apprenticed to him. [6] He was the father of Jan, Theodor and Adriaen Matham, the latter of whom was a notable engraver in his own right.
References
- ^ Bradley, William Aspenwall (1918). Dutch Landscape Etchers of the Seventeenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 12.
- ^ Golahny, Amy (2007). In His Milieu: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Memory of John Michael Montias. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-5356-933-7.
- ^ Hind, Arthur Magyer (1908). A Short History of Engraving & Etching. A. Constable & Co., Ltd. pp. 120.
- ^ Sutton, Peter C. (2004). Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10626-2.
- ^ Honig, Elizabeth A. (1999). Painting and the Market in Early Modern Antwerp. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07239-2.
- ^ Bisanz-Prakken, Marian (2005). Rembrandt and His Time: Masterworks from the Albertina, Vienna. Hudson Hills. ISBN 1-55595-257-7.
External links
Media related to
Jacob Matham at Wikimedia Commons
- Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Jacob Matham
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