travelled to Westphalia with Jacob van Ruisdael, where a dated piece showing Burg Bentheim is recorded. Maybe Berchem went to Italy after this trip and before he moved to Amsterdam - he is not clearly documented in the Netherlands between 1650 and 1656. Around 1660 he worked for the engraver Jan de Visscher designing an atlas. In 1661-1670 he is registered in Amsterdam and in 1670 he moved back to Haarlem, but was living back in Amsterdam by 1677, where he died in 1683. He was a popular teacher and his pupils were Abraham Begeyn, Johannes van der Bent, his son Nicolaes, Isaack Croonenbergh, Simon Dubois, Karel Dujardin, Johannes Glauber, Pieter de Hooch, Jacob van Huchtenburg, Justus van Huysum, Dirk Maas, Hendrick Mommers, Jacob Ochtervelt, Willem Romeyn and possibly Jan Frans Soolmaker. He was the uncle of Govert van der Leeuw and his brother Pieter. The French Rococo painter Jean-Baptiste Pillement was influenced by his works, as was the Dutch 'Cleves Romanticism' landscape painter, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. Further reading Neil MacLaren, The Dutch School, 1600-1800, Volume I, 1991, National Gallery Catalogues'', National Gallery, London, Gallery References External links Gallery of works Works by Nicolaes Berchem at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa rijksmuseum.nl emslandgeschichte.de Berchem in Italy: notes on an unpublished painting Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters 1620 births 1683 deaths Artists from Haarlem Painters from Haarlem