Wallerant Vaillant

Training under Erasmus Quellinus II is recorded. Jacques Vaillant, Jan Vaillant and Bernard Vaillant are recorded as having studied under Wallerant Vaillant. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is mezzotint technique and painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Positions recorded include court painter. Works named in the authority record are Portrait of a young woman with three children, Portrait of a woman and Maria van Oosterwijck (1630-93). Work by Wallerant Vaillant is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Nationalmuseum, Städel Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Wallerant Vaillant was born in Lille, the oldest of five brothers who all became successful painters. • Jacques (1625–1691) traveled to Italy where he joined the Bentvueghels in Rome with the nickname Leeuwrik, and settled later in Berlin. • Jan (1627–1668+) was an engraver considered to be a member of the school of Frankenthal and later became a merchant in Frankfurt. • Bernard (1632–1698) accompanied Wallerant on all of his travels, and settled later in Rotterdam, where he became deacon of the Wallonian Church. • Andreas (1655–1693), the youngest, became an engraver in Paris, and died in Berlin visiting his brother Jacques.

It is said Wallerant was a student of Erasmus Quellinus II (1607–1678) in Antwerp. He moved with his parents in 1643 to Amsterdam. In 1647 he lived in Middelburg, but in 1649 he was back in Amsterdam. In 1658 he traveled with his brother to Frankfurt and Heidelberg. He helped invent the Mezzotint technique (schraapkunst, or zwartekunst) with Prince Rupert of the Rhine when he was his tutor performing experiments in etching techniques. In 1659 he went to Paris with Philibert de Gramont where he stayed five years. In 1664 he settled in Amsterdam and became the court painter of John William Friso, Prince of Orange. He died in Amsterdam. Vaillant is most remembered today for his mezzotints, rather than his paintings.

The authorities additionally record the headings Wallerand Vaillant, Wallerandt Vaillandt, Wallerand Vaillandt, Walrant Valjant and Wallerandt Vaillant. His recorded language was French.

Works recorded as notable number 3: Portrait of a young woman with three children, Portrait of a woman and Maria van Oosterwijck (1630-93). His recorded genre is portrait.

Wallerant Vaillant is recorded as painter, draftsperson, copper engraver, artist and etcher.

Vaillant's work is held in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Ackland Art Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the National Gallery Prague, the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, the Kruizenga Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.