River landscapes. Plate 5. Untitled., Jan de Visscher, etcher, 1650-1660, Netherlands, etching, Jan de Visscher/ Johannes Visscher (c. 1636-before 1712) was a Dutch Golden Age printmaker who became a painter in later life. According to Arnold Houbraken, the great early biographer of Dutch artists, he was an able etcher who made famous prints in his lifetime after the works of Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Jan van Goyen (as here), Adriaen van Ostade and Philips Wouwerman. He became an able pupil of the landscape painter Michiel Carree at the advanced age of 56. Houbraken spoke to Carree personally

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