Wallerant Vaillant
(1623–1677) painter from the Northern Netherlands (1623-1677)
Wallerant Vaillant (1623–1677) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Wallerant Vaillant belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.
Wallerant Vaillant was born in Lille and died in Amsterdam. Wallerant Vaillant studied under Erasmus Quellinus II. The students included Jacques Vaillant, Jan Vaillant, Bernard Vaillant, and Andries Vaillant.
The best-known works include ‘Portrait of a young woman with three children’, ‘Portrait of a woman’, and ‘Maria van Oosterwijck (1630-93). Flower painter’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 55 works by Wallerant Vaillant with free images. The dated works span the years 1645–1674. Works by Wallerant Vaillant are held by several collections, among them Yale Center for British Art, Amsterdam Museum, Prints in the National Gallery of Art, and Rijksmuseum.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Robert van den Hoecke, Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel, Abraham Diepraem, Theodore Poulakis, and Jacob van der Does.