Gerard Valck
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Gerard Valck (30 September 1652 – 21 October 1726) was a Dutch engraver, publisher and cartographer.
Valck was born in Amsterdam on 30 September 1652 to an Amsterdam silversmith. He was a student of Abraham Blooteling and later became his assistant. Together, they moved to London, where Valk continued to work with print and map dealers. In 1673, he married Blooteling's sister Maria and they had a son, Leonard.[1] Soon after Leonard's birth in 1675, Valk returned to Amsterdam. There, he was registered as a citizen on December 8, 1679.[1]
Career
Valck engraved many portraits of English nobility and worked frequently with Blooteling.[2] His earliest dated mezzotint is titled Sleeping Cupid and was published in 1677.[3] He based many of his engravings and mezzotints after designs by other artists like Peter Lely, Gérard de Lairesse and Philip Tideman. He published most of his works himself.[4]
In Amsterdam, he had a close partnership with his son Leonardus Valck and Peter Schenk the Elder, who married Gerard's sister in 1687.[2][5] Valck also published atlases, maps, printed globes and prints of other things.[2][4]
Death
He died in Amsterdam on 21 October 1726.[2]
