Jan Visscher

Training under Michiel Carree is recorded. The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are animal art and landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Work by Jan Visscher is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Finnish National Gallery and National Gallery of Victoria.

• Illustration — The Moor, an etching after a drawing by his brother Cornelis According to Houbraken he was an able etcher who made famous prints (in his lifetime) after the works of Philips Wouwerman and Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, and who became an able pupil of the landscape painter Michiel Carrée aged 56. Houbraken spoke to Michiel Carrée personally about his art, who claimed that Visscher became as good as he was at Italianate landscapes. No paintings by Visscher's hand are known today, but he made many prints after various famous painters from Haarlem such as Berchem, Adriaen van Ostade, Jan van Goyen, and his brother Cornelis. Houbraken mentioned Jan Visser from Haarlem with the nickname Slempop at another point in his book, in his biographical sketch of "P. Molyn", son of Pieter de Molijn. This Jan Visser visited the Haarlem-born Molyn II when he was in prison in Genua for 16 years for murdering his wife. According to the RKD Jan de Visscher had two brothers, Cornelis Visscher and Lambert de Visscher. He was registered in Amsterdam in 1692, but his death was not recorded. Since he is referred to in the past tense when Houbraken was writing, he is assumed to have died before 1712.

The authorities additionally record the headings Slempop, Jan De Visscher, Johannes Visscher, Johannes de Visscher and Jan Visscher. His recorded language was Dutch. His recorded confession was Catholic Church.