Theodor Matham

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title: "Theodor Matham" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["dutch-golden-age-printmakers", "1589-births", "year-of-death-unknown", "artists-from-haarlem", "17th-century-dutch-engravers"] description: "Dutch engraver" topic_path: "geography/netherlands" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Matham" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Dutch engraver ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Jacob_Vligeri_dli_0613700394.jpg" caption="Theodor Matham, ''Jacob Vliger'', c. 1651, engraving[https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma991623463804896 Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC]"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Theodor_Matham_Galante_Szene.jpg" caption="Theodor Matham, galant scene"] ::

Theodor Matham, also Theodoor Matham (born 1589) was a Dutch engraver. He was the younger son of the better known engraver Jacob Matham, and the brother of the engravers Jan and Adriaen Matham.

He was born in Haerlem. He went to Italy and studied under Cornelius Bloemaert, and then returned to Haerlem, where he engraved an important number of plates. He signed his plates T.M. fecit or T.M. sculpsit.

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References

1. [https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma991623463804896 Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC]
2. [https://books.google.com/books?id=A6NfiUjDFfMC&pg=PA83 ''Cities at War in Early Modern Europe'' Martha Pollak p.83]
3. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ddqEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA533 ''A biographical history of the fine arts'' by Shearjashub Spooner p.533]

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