Andries Vaillant (1655 in

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engraver and artist. According to Houbraken he learned to draw from his oldest brother Wallerant Vaillant and then travelled to Paris to learn engraving.Andries Vaillant Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature From there he travelled to Berlin to visit his brother Jacques, where he died young. According to the RKD he was the younger half-brother of the painter Wallerant Vaillant.Andries Vaillant
in the

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He travelled between Amsterdam, Paris, and Frankenthal in the years 1675-1678. Then he married Eva Hoen in Sloten in 1678 and settled in Amsterdam. He moved to Berlin in 1685 and is known for paintings as well as engravings.

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