Career
According to Houbraken he was an able etcher who made famous prints (in his lifetime) after the works of Philips Wouwerman and Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, and who became an able pupil of the landscape painter Michiel Carrée at the ripe age of 56. Houbraken spoke to Michiel Carrée personally about his art, who claimed that Visscher became as good as he was at Italianate landscapes. Houbraken mentioned January Visser from Haarlem with the nickname Slempop at another point in his book, in his biographical sketch of "P. Molyn", son of Pieter de Molijn.
According to the RKD January de Visscher had two brothers, Cornelis Visscher and Lambert de Visscher.
He was registered in Amsterdam in 1692, but his death was not recorded. Since he is referred to in the past tense when Houbraken was writing, he is assumed to have died before 1712.
