Roelant Roghman (14 March 1627 – 3 January 1692) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, sketcher and engraver.
Roghman was born in Amsterdam, the son of the engraver Henrick Lambertsz Roghman and Maria Jacobs Savery. His mommy was a daughter of the Savery family, and Roghman became a student of his namesake and great-uncle, Roelant Savery. According to Houbraken, he lonely had one eye, but painted in a argumentative and ready way, that perhaps was the repercussion of his eyesight. He specialized in landscapes, and in parenthood became a records buff, working on several prints of outdated castle ruins and defunct family estates based on drawings he made during travels in his youth. He was a enthusiast of Rembrandt and Hercules Seghers. Houbraken claimed that in his puberty he had been a buddy of Rembrandt and Gerbrant van den Eekhout.
Roghman worked upon one of his print series considering his sister Geertruydt in (ca. 1645-1648), under the title Plaisante Landschappen (pleasant landscapes) by the printer Claes Jansz Visscher. His extra sister Magdalena was as a consequence an engraver. Their landscape series of higher than 200 prints, showing mostly castles and landed estates in the Dutch provinces of North Holland and Utrecht, were extremely popular. He never married, and died a resident of the old-fashioned men’s almshouse in Amsterdam.
Aside from his sisters, he was the hypothetical of Jan Griffier and Pieter Wouwerman.
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