Christiaen van Vianen

Christiaen van Vianen (1598 – 1671) was a Dutch silversmith and draughtsman.

Christiaen van Vianen
Born1598
Died1671

He was the son of Adam van Vianen and worked in his father's auricular style as a silversmith and designer. In the 1640s he employed the engraver Theodor van Kessel to make a book about his father's designs, called Modelli Artificiosi di Vasi diversi d'argento et altre Opere capriciozi. These plates were later reworked in the 1650s into Constige modellen van verscheyden silvere vaten en andere sinnighe werken, gevonden ende geteekend door den vermaarden Adam van Vianen, sijnde meerendeels door hem uyt één stuk silver geslagen, uytgegeven door synen soon Christiaen van Vianen tot Utrecht, ende in cooper geetst door Theodor van Kessel.[1][2]

References
  1. Christiaan van Vianen in Van der Aa
  2. Later translated as Artful Models of Various Silver Vases and Other Capricious Work, invented and drawn by the Respected Adam van Vianen, consisting of 48 plates, published by his son Christiaen van Vianen in Utrecht, and engraved in Copper by Theodor van Kessel
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