Pieter Schenk The Elder
Pieter Schenk The Elder;Peter Schenk
Place: Elberfeld
Born: 1660
Death: 1711
Biography:
Petrus Schenck, or Pieter, or Peter Schenk the Elder was a German engraver and cartographer active in Amsterdam and Leipzig. He moved to Amsterdam in 1675 and became a student of Gerard Valck specializing in mezzotint. In 1687 he married Gerard's sister Agatha Valck. In 1694, together with Valck, he bought some of the copperplates of the artdealer and cartographer Johannes Janssonius. He had three sons who became engravers and published numerous maps and a drawing of Saxonia.