Coenraet Decker (1650 in
Amsterdam
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– 1685 in Amsterdam) was a
Dutch Golden Age
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engraver.
According to the RKD, he had been a pupil of
Romeyn de Hooghe and married Aechje Jans in 1673 in
Sloterdijk when he was 23.
[Coenraet Decker]
in the RKD
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In the 1670s, he worked on the map of
Delft
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contract that he won together with
Dirk van Bleiswijk, for their work on Bleiswijk's ''Description of Delft'' (Dutch: Beschryvinge der stad Delft).
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References
External links
Vermeer and The Delft School
a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has material on Coenraet Decker
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1650 births
1685 deaths
Dutch Golden Age printmakers
Artists from Amsterdam