Reinier van Persijn

Training under Cornelis Bloemaert and Theodor Matham is recorded. The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is engraving process. Places of work recorded in the authority are Alkmaar, Rome and Amsterdam. Work by Reinier van Persijn is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rijksprentenkabinet, Museum De Lakenhal and Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.

• Name — Reinier van Persijn • Born — 1615 • Birthplace — Alkmaar • Died — 23 November 1668 • Place of death — Gouda • Field — Engraving • Movement — Baroque

According to Houbraken, who called him Reynier van Parzyn, he was married to the granddaughter of the stained glass painter Wouter Crabeth I, whose son Wouter Crabeth II he probably knew from his time in Rome, where they were both members of the Bentvueghels. His bent or nickname was Narcissus (Daffodil). He settled in 1645 in Gouda, where his wife was born. He was a student of Cornelis Bloemaert and learned the art of publishing book title pages from Theodor Matham, son of Jacob Matham. According to an old Dutch Who's Who, while in Italy he engraved pieces from the Justiani gallery, made a famous engraving of Baldassare Castiglione and had a motto, Het moet al in een pers zijn, meaning It must already be in print, which was a play on words, because Pers-zijn was his name. • Illustration — Engraved title page by Reinier van Persijn, of the book by C.M. Anhaltin, Slot en sleutel van de groote zee-vaert met een uytschrijvinge van Oost en West, Amsterdam 1659.