Amsterdam Schouwburg of Van Campen interior

Salomon Savery (1594–1683) was an engraver from the

Dutch Republic The United Provinces of the Netherlands, commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. It was a predecessor state of the present-day Netherlands ...

Biography

Savery was born in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

. According to the RKD he was the son of Jacob Savery, brother to

Pieter Pieter is a male given name, the Dutch language, Dutch form of Peter (name), Peter. The name has been one of the most common names in the Netherlands for centuries, but since the mid-twentieth century its popularity has dropped steadily, from a ...

, Hans II and Jacob II, and nephew of Hans I and Roelant (his godfather), and uncle to Geetruyd, Roelant and Magdalena Roghman.Salomon Savery
in the

RKD The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: ), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center in the world. The center specializes in document ...

His earliest dated print is from 1610, after a work by his uncle Joos Goeimare. He travelled to England in 1632. At times he collaborated with

Pieter Quast Pieter Jansz. Quast (bap. 17 April 1605 – buried 29 May 1647) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, draughtsman of portraits and sculptor. Life According to the Ecartico website, Pieter Jansz Quast (brush), was the son of Jan Sijmensz, a barge ...

. He died in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English language, English) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the Provinces of the Nether ...

References

Salomon Savery
on

Artnet Artnet.com is an art market website. It is operated by Artnet Worldwide Corporation, which has headquarters in New York City. It is owned by Artnet AG, a German publicly-traded company based in Berlin that is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Ex ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Savery, Salomon 1594 births 1683 deaths Engravers from Amsterdam 17th-century Dutch engravers