# Abraham Rademaker artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T20:56:14.329Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Death date: 1735-01-12
- Nationality: Dutch
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking and copper engraving

## Portrait

![Abraham Rademaker](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Portret_van_Abraham_Rademaker%2C_RP-P-OB-24.161.jpg/1280px-Portret_van_Abraham_Rademaker%2C_RP-P-OB-24.161.jpg)
After Tako Hajo Jelgersma / Cornelis van Noorde · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Abraham_Rademaker,_RP-P-OB-24.161.jpg

## About Abraham Rademaker

Abraham Rademaker (1675–1735) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and engraver active in the early eighteenth-century Dutch Republic. Public authority records connect him with landscape painting, drawing, and print production, while Dutch biographical material emphasizes topographical views and landscapes. Buildings and places could also be represented on commission. A particularly useful documentary anchor is the 1730 publication Hollands Arcadia, or de vermaarde Rivier den Amstel, which the Bibliothèque nationale de France identifies as a project comprising 100 copper engravings designed from observed subjects and engraved by Rademaker. Collectors may therefore encounter his name across paintings, drawings, individual prints, and illustrated topographical projects rather than in a single medium. His documented subjects include recognizable buildings, landscapes, and river settings. Several international authority files provide stable identifiers, although the supplied records disagree on whether his birth year was 1675 or 1677; this profile follows the more detailed BnF record and preserves the conflict as an open research question.

## Common works and media

Commonly encountered work types include topographical drawings, painted landscapes, copper engravings, and other prints. Dutch-language biographical sources specifically associate Rademaker with views of buildings and landscapes, sometimes made to order. The BnF also documents his authorship of the 1730 Hollands Arcadia project, a group of 100 images concerning the Amstel River, making individual architectural or river-view prints a relevant identification context.

## Market and appraisal context

Rademaker's market context should begin with object type: a unique painting or drawing is not directly comparable to an engraving from a published topographical series. Subject is also important for research, especially when a view can be connected to a named building, landscape, river setting, or documented project such as Hollands Arcadia. For prints, the exact image, series relationship, and physical format should be recorded before comparable lots are selected. The supplied source pack establishes his working media and subjects but contains no major-auction-house evidence, realized-price sequence, edition documentation, or condition analysis. It therefore supports category-level appraisal context, not a price forecast, rarity claim, or market-trend conclusion.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity with auction records and auction-house context, including sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile's biographical statements are grounded in the cited public source pack.

## Sources

- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149723826
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2534646
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500032675
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Rademaker
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Rademaker
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Abraham_Rademaker,_RP-P-OB-24.161.jpg
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG42984
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.5305.html