Discover print artist, reproductive engraver, mezzotinter Pieter Schenk (I)

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: Schenck, Petrus (I)
Schenck, Pieter (I)
Schenk, Petrus (I)

Qualifications: print artist, reproductive engraver, mezzotinter, publisher, court engraver
court engraver to August the Strong

Nationality/school: German, North Netherlandish

Born: Elberfeld (Wuppertal) 1660-12/1660-12-26
baptized 26 December 1660; The New Hollstein: born 1661

Deceased: Leipzig 1711
Van der Krogt 1985; Wuestman 1998, p. 157, note 37.; The New Hollstein; according to Hollstein he died in Amsterdam in 1713.

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: married Agatha Valck in Buiksloot, November 2, 1687 (sister of the artist Gerard Valck); father of Pieter Schenck II (De Vries 1886); his daughter Maria married 1710 with Valck's son Leonardus (New Hollstein)

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

Although Peter himself probably never had been in London, he produced like Valck for the English market (Griffiths 1998, p. 228).

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55 hits in RKDimages as artist
5 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
3 hits in RKDlibrary as illustrator
11 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Wuppertal
Amsterdam (stad) 1684 - 1700
in 1687 he married Gerard Valck's sister Agatha; 1688 he became citizen ('poorter') of Amsterdam as engraver free of charge, because Gerard Valck's father was 'poorter'; his addresses: at the Lauriersgracht, in 1694: at the southside of the Egelantiersgracht, in 1699/1700: at the Beurssluis (The New Hollstein); with Gerard Valck the first publisher of prints in Teyler's colour process from 1695 (The New Hollstein)
Leipzig 1700 - 1711
came every year to Leizpig from 1700 on, where he attended the Leipzig Fair and had his sales stand in Breunigkes Hof in Petersstrasse (Moes 1904, p. 147); ca. 1700 appointed 'Hofkupferstecher' to Friedrich August I of Saxony (1670-1733)
Berlijn 1704-05-07
visited other places in Germany on his way up and down between Amsterdam and Leipzig (Moes 1904, p. 147)
Amsterdam (stad) 1706 - 1711
address: at the Vijgendam (The New Hollstein)

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Valck, Gerard
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Schenk, Jan
Schenk, Leonardus (I)
Schenk, Pieter (II)

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: portrait, topography, history (genre), genre

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 5 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Le Blanc 1854-1890 , vol. 3 (1888)
Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 7 (1888-1890), p. 152-153, p. 158, (A. Bredius, ‘Uit de “Minute octrooien der Staten van Holland van West-Friesland’)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 287-288
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 30 (1936), p. 29-30 (as: Pieter Schenk)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 241
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 287-288
Witt Checklist 1978
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 25 (1981) (incorrectly as died in Amsterdam in 1713)
Honnef/Weschenfelder/Haberland 1992 , p. 337, cat.no. 70
Griffiths 1998 , passim
Wuestman 1998 , p. 157, note 37
Kolfin/Van der Veen et al. 2011 , passim
Stijnman/Savage 2015 , passim
The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish 1993- , vol. Johannes Teyler and Dutch colour prints, part 3 (2017), p. 123-409 (as Petrus Schenck (Peter; Pieter) (Schenk))

A.D. de Vries Azn., 'Biografische aanteekeningen betreffende voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne verwanten' (I), Oud-Holland 3 (1885), p. 55-80; p. 78
D.A. Rovinskii, Podrobnyi slovar' russkih gravirovannyh portretov, vol. 1-4, St. Petersburg 1886-1888
E.W. Moes, 'Korte mededeelingen over Nederlandsche plaatsnijders, IV. Een "Album Amicorum" van Petrus Schenck', Oud Holland 22 (1904), p. 146-154
J. Fontein en A.L. den Blaauwen, ''Picturae Sinicae ac Surattenae' van Petrus Schenk Sr', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 12 (1964), p. 91-101
I.H. van Eeghen, 'Petrus Schenk en zijn 'Afbeeldinge der voornaamste gebouwen van Amsterdam'', Jaarboek Amstelodamum 66 (1974), p. 117-136
Chr. Betram, ''Aus den Kupffern aber / so man davon hat / ersehe ich / dass ich nichts sonderliches daran zu sehen versäumet habe...': Zur Funktion des Kupferstiches für die Rezeption niederlandischer Gartenkunst um 1700', Bulletin KNOB 95 (1996), p. 214-224
P.C.J. van der Krogt, 'Variae Cartographica: Petrus Schenck I overleden te Leipzig in 1711', Caert Tresoor 4 (1985), p. 37-38 (with incorrect birth date, see Wuestman 1998)
J. van Tatenhove, 'Pieter Schenk (1660-1713)', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 23 (July 2001), p. 31-32
Thomas Döring, 'Peter Schenk im Profil. Selbstbildnisse und Netzwerk eines deutsch-holländischen Graphikunternehmers um 1700', Beiträge zur alten Malerei und zum Sammeln von Kunst. Niederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte. Neue Folge 4 (2019)

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Project: Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)
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Dutch Artists in Rome

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Creation date: 1992-01-25; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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