"Nicolaes de Clerck (publisher/printer; Dutch; Male; 1599 fl. - 1626 died)
Also known as: Clerck, Nicolaes de
Biography: Publisher. b. Lier, living in Delft between 1593 and 1621. ...
In 1625 he was working in The Hague. He published prints designed by Jacques de Gheyn II and engraved by Andries Stock between 1610 and 1615, as well as many of the etchings by Jacques de Gheyn III between 1615 and 1620.
Bibliography: J.M.Montias, ’Artists and artisans in Delft’, Princeton 1982, pp.275-77 (for the buyers at the sale of his plates in 1626)
J.D.C.A. Briels, ’Zuidnederlandse Boekdrukkers en boekverkopers ... 1570-1630’, pp.240-41.
Nadine Orenstein, ’Hendrick Hondius and the Business of Prints in Seventeenth-Century Holland’, 1996, p.20
Irene Schrier, ’Delineavit et Sculpsit’, 36 2013, pp.44-58 (identification of some of his plates)! - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=93240, 23.07.2018
"Clerk, Nicolaus de, ein holländischer Kupferstecher, der um 1625 im Haag arbeitete. Er stach Bildnisse und Blätter nach Matham u. a. Heinecke erwähnt auch eines e Clerk, der die Portraite des Kaisers Ferdinand III. und Philipps IV. von Spanien gestochen hat. Auch soll er nach Rosso, Alban, J. Stella und II. Watelet gestochen haben." - Nagler, G. K. "Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon", Band 3, München 1836, Seite 8
