Jacob Matham

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He was the stepson and pupil of painter and draftsman Hendrik Goltzius,{{cite book | last = Bradley | first = William Aspenwall | title = Dutch Landscape Etchers of the Seventeenth Century | publisher = Yale University Press | year = 1918 | location = New Haven | pages = [https://archive.org/details/dutchlandscapee01bradgoog/page/n31 12] | url = https://archive.org/details/dutchlandscapee01bradgoog }} and brother-in-law to engraver Simon van Poelenburgh, having married his sister, Marijtgen.{{cite book | last = Golahny | first = Amy | title = In His Milieu: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Memory of John Michael Montias | publisher = Amsterdam University Press | year = 2007 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XGui9XJ3ObIC | isbn = 978-90-5356-933-7}}{{cite book | last = Hind | first = Arthur Magyer | title = A Short History of Engraving & Etching | publisher = A. Constable & Co., Ltd. | year = 1908 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofen00hinduoft/page/120 120] | url = https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofen00hinduoft }} He made several engravings after the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens from 1611 to 1615,{{cite book | last = Sutton | first = Peter C. | title = Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens | publisher = Yale University Press | year = 2004 | location = New Haven | url = https://archive.org/details/drawnbybrushoils0000sutt | url-access = registration | isbn = 0-300-10626-2}} and also a series after the work of Pieter Aertsen.{{cite book | last = Honig | first = Elizabeth A. | title = Painting and the Market in Early Modern Antwerp | publisher = Yale University Press | year = 1999 | location = New Haven | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wl-Ii1RCzegC | isbn = 0-300-07239-2}} In 1613, engraver Jan van de Velde was apprenticed to him.{{cite book | last = Bisanz-Prakken | first = Marian | title = Rembrandt and His Time: Masterworks from the Albertina, Vienna | publisher = Hudson Hills | year = 2005 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6LWbImajETkC | isbn = 1-55595-257-7}} He was the father of Jan, Theodor and Adriaen Matham, the latter of whom was a notable engraver in his own right.

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• [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/65202/rec/17 Vermeer and The Delft School], a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Jacob Matham

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Category:1571 births

Category:1631 deaths

Category:Dutch draughtsmen

Category:Dutch Golden Age printmakers

Category:Renaissance engravers

Category:Painters from Haarlem

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