Matthäus Merian the Younger (1621 – 1687)

• Was a Swiss engraver and portrait painter.
• He was born in Basel as the eldest son of Matthäus Merian the Elder and his first wife Maria Magdalena née de Bry.

• Like his father he became an engraver.

• He was the half-brother of Maria Sybilla Merian and the brother of Caspar Merian.

• He is documented as having served Carl Gustaf Wrangel as an importer of wine and other luxury goods and is known for his portraits.

• He became a teacher of Bartholomäus Kilian.

• In Frankfurt Matthew the Younger became a pupil of Joachim von Sandrart.

• With him he went to Amsterdam in 1637, to Paris in 1641 and to London in 1639 with Anthonis van Dyck. 

• After the death of his father in 1650, he ran the publishing house together with his younger brother Caspar Merian.

• Merian died on 15 February 1687 in Frankfurt.

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