Printmaker and painter, born in Spaarndam, Netherlands, who lived more than half his life in East Anglia. He studied at Haarlem Academy of Art where he was taught by the Portuguese artist Samuel Jesserum da Merquita. During World War II, after the Netherlands had fallen to the Germans, Visser was appointed official war artist to the Dutch government in exile in London. Between 1942–5 he was commissioned to make many important portraits which included the reigning monarch, Queen Wilhelmina, members of the Dutch royal family, government ministers and Army officials. Leaflets bearing his portrait of the Queen were dropped by the Royal Air Force for the liberation. After the war Visser returned to Ipswich for the rest of his life, and in 1994 the Museums and Galleries there held a show of his work, which included many charming woodcuts, engravings and lino-cuts.