Coenraet Decker [SEP] place of death
Coenraet Decker
Coenraet Decker (1650 in Amsterdam – 1685 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age engraver.
Biography.
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. In the 1670s he worked on the map of Delft 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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sickly and remained unmarried. The index and plates by Coenraet Decker of important buildings for the publication were published separately in 1668 and 1675 along with a map of Delft by Johannes de Ram.
According to Houbraken who used him several times as a source (most notably for his first entry on Erasmus), the Dordrecht minister David Flud van Giffen had a portrait of Balthasar Gerards, the murderer of Willem the Silent, as a curiosity in his cabinet. The painting was made from life by Christiaen Jansz van Bieselingen, who