Adam van Vianen

The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are map and cityscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Utrecht. Works named in the authority record are Memorial Gilded Ewer for Amsterdam Guild in Memory of the Artist's Brother. Work by Adam van Vianen is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Nationalmuseum, Rijksmuseum and Centraal Museum.

Van Vianen was born and died in Utrecht. He was the oldest son of Willem Eerstensz. van Vianen, the brother of Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen and the father of Christian van Vianen. He probably trained with a local goldsmith, learning engraving, as most goldsmiths did. A handful of prints can be identified as his, including two portraits and a map of Utrecht. His earliest surviving piece of silver is a standing cup of 1594, now in the Hermitage Museum. On 12 October 1593, he married Aeltgen Verhorst, with whom he had a son. After his wife's death, he married Catharina van Wapenveldt, with whom he had three children. He is believed to have died on 25 or 26 August 1627. Adam van Vianen's son Christiaen van Vianen was considered to be his father's equal in skill, according to Joachim von Sandrart. He became known along with his brother for the auricular style of cartilaginous arabesques in baroque art. According to some, Paulus designed them and Adam transformed them into three-dimensional objects.

Work and production. One work is recorded as notable: Memorial Gilded Ewer for Amsterdam Guild in Memory of the Artist's Brother. His recorded genres are map and cityscape.