LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



Nijlorical, i!fc. — " The Holy Family," after Raphael, in John le Ducq was a native of the Hague, and born fn- 

 Jblio ; "The Entombing of Cliriil," after L. Caracci, in the year 1636. He learned the rudiments of paintincf of' 

 large folio ; " The Virgin with the Infant Saviour read- Paul Potter, vvhofe ftyle he imitated with much fiiccefs. 

 iiig," in an oval, after Guerchino ; "A dead Chrill, In 1671 I,e Ducq was made direftor of the academy of 

 with Angels weeping over him," from the fame painter ; painting at the Hague, and enjoyed the reputation of a good 

 a iialf figure of " The Virgin with the Infant Clnilt," in artiil ; but after fome years he quitted the arts, and entered- 

 folio; " Jefus Chrill in the Clouds, with St. John and the th» military fervicc. I..C Ducq executed feveral etchings- 

 Virgin interceding for S.t. Bruno," in large folio ; " Chrift from his own defigns, with much intelligence and precilion ;- 

 and the Woman of Samaria ;" " The penitent Magdalen ;" among which is a fet of eight quarto plates, of dogs, dated- 

 " The Ci)un<il of St. Sulpitius ;" and " The Holy Fa- 1654. 



niily," ail after Ph. de Champagne, and of folio fize. Romyn or Remain de Hooghc was born at the Hague in- 

 Another " Holy Family," wherein an angel is prcfcnting the year 1638 ; and being a man of genius, and of g-eat 

 the infant Saviour with a baflcct of flowers, after Villcquin ; fertility of mveution, foon dilUnguiflied himfclf both as a 

 and a large Thefis, after Seb. Bourdon. d.figncr and engraver. His llyle of art was firgular and- 



Charles or Karel du Jardin was born at Amfterdam in extravagant ; but the furprife which his deligns excited-, and- 

 the year 163 J, and died at Venice in 1678. He was the the imprcflion which their novelty made on the public mind, . 

 difciple of Paul Potter, or, as fome authors affirm, of Ber- occafioned his compofitions to be much fought after ; and he- 

 ghem ; and after iludying for fome years in- his native compofed and engraved many of the frontifpieces to the- 

 country, made a voyage to Italy, under the pretext of ac- books which were at that time printed in Holia:;d-. 

 companying a friend to Livourna. The Rev. Mr. Gilpui fays of him : " Romain de Hooghe 



Here he was fo well pleafed, either wi'li the climate and is inimitable in execution. Perhaps no mailer etches in a 

 Jandfcape fcenery, or the patronage which Italy afforded freer and more fpirited manner : there is a richnefs in it, 

 him, that he continued there for the remainder of his life, likewife, which we feldom meet with. His figures, too. 

 As a painter, we haw already treated of the merits of Du arc ofttn good; but his compofition is generally faulty : it 

 Jardin. Both as painter and engraver, he added fparhling is crowded and confufed. He linows little of the efTcft of 

 force to the tafre and touch of Berghem. He underllood light . There is a flutter in him, too, which hurts an eye- 

 the anatomy of domeftic animals, perhaps better than Potter accu Homed to, and pleafed- with, fimplicity." 

 or Berghem. He drew with the utmoft freedom, though His prints are generally eith&r hiftorical or allegoric ; -and- 

 his drawing is ftriStly correct. He copied nature limply an ong them, " I'he Deluge at Gceverden" (which, as Mr. 

 and exaftly, though not lervilely ; and has given us net only Gilpin fays, is finely defcnbed) has excited much notice, 

 the form, but the charatterillic peculiarities alfo, of each: This Deluge at Coeverden is a fmall folio print, and is 

 animal. He never indeed, like Hondiut, animates- his crea- properly an hiflorkal land/cape. De Hooghe had here a 

 tion with the violence of favage fury r his geniv:s takes a cowitry to defcribe, and s. Jlory to tell. The country is the 

 milder turn.- In his print?, all is quietnels and repofe. environs of Coeverden, a Dutch town, with an immenfe 

 His dogs, after their exercife, lie llretchcd at their eafe •,. bank thrown up again II the fea ; the ftory is the ruin of that'- 

 and the languor of a meridian fun commonly prevails through bank, which was broken through in three places by the vio- 

 tlie piece. His compofition is beautiful ; and his execution, ler.ce of a llorm. The fubjeft was great and difficult, and 

 though neat, is fpirited., tl;e artift has acquitted himfelf in a mafterly manner. The 



Some of his prints are of quarto, and others of folio, di- tov\ n of Coeverden fills the diftant view: the country is 

 menfion-; ; but they are generally met with, bound togtthtr overfpread with a deluge, the iky with a tempeft, and the - 

 in a folio volume, which is highly and juftly valued by all bleaches in the bank appear in all their horror. The com- 

 perfons of tafle, and c«nli!ls of fifty leave?. His fubjcdfs por;tioii, in the diftant and middle parts, is as pleafing as 

 are gentralh/ landfcapes, or paftoral converfations, in which I'uch an extenfive fubiefl can well' be. An elevated lionzon- 

 cattle arc often the principal objeds. Of that uhich is u-as necefiary to give a dillinft view of the whole. The 

 . placed the lifih in the volume, the Rev. Mr. Gilpin has light is thrown over the landl'cape in good mnlTcs ;. and the 

 written : " The defign, though humble, is beautiful. The degree of flutter, which Mr. Gilpin feems to cenfure-above, . 

 two dogs repofing at noon, after the labour of the morning, was here congenial to the fuljeft. The exprefflon of the 

 the implements of fowling, the ficlitious hedge, and the figures, of the horfes efpcc!-«l!y, is very ftrong : thofe which 

 ibop-hoL?5 through it, all correfponff, and agreeably tell the the driver is turning, to avoid the horrid chafm before him, 

 little hillory of the day. The compofition alfo is good, are imprelfed with th> wildell character of terror ; and in- 

 The. nets and fowling-pieces are judicioujly r,dded, and make deed the whole fcene of diftrefs, and the horrible confufion 

 an ag-eeable Ihape with the dogs. The hedge adds another in every part of it, are admirably defcribed. 

 pyramidal form. The light is well dillributed. The The execution, though gcod, is inferior to that of .fome 

 drawing and espreffion are pure nature,, and the execution others of the works of De Hooghe; and, with rlie fore- 

 elegant and malterly.'' ground, a popular critic finds the following fault ; The 

 RuYSDAEL, (for an account of the, charafter of whofe fpirit, he ftiys, which the artill has maintained through ths- 

 merits as a painter, fee that article,) executed, about this reit of the piece, feems here to flag : -whereas- here he (iKHiii 

 period, fome very malterly etchings :. they are wight, but have clofed the whole with fome. noble -eonfufion, which' 

 very pifturefque, and may be confidered as beautiful Ikctchcs would have fet off the diftant parts, and llruck the fpeClatop 

 from nature. The following are a feleCtion of the beft : with the llrongcit images of hoiTor. Inftead of this-,- we are 

 a very Icarce, woody landlcape, of very delicate execu- prefcnted vvith a few pigs and calves floundering in the 

 tion, in fmall 4to. ; a fea-view, with veifels, and a mountain water. The thought fcems borrowed from Otid. , In the. 

 towards the left, crowned with trees and buildings, in 4to. ; midli of a world in ruins, 



a. cottage embofomed in trees, with a wooden brid;re, and a <t \t . 1.,.,.... :„.«_ „ „ ■> 



r ° ■, , • r , 3 • 1 , '^n , " Mat lupus inter ove?. 



pea!a.".t and dog, m tolio, executed m a broader Ityle ; a 



foreft fcene, in folio; and a laiidfcape of wild cWaifter, Among the numerous productions of thfs artiir, the fo].- 



with a hovel on the defccut of a liill, in foUo, lowir" ave the mult diflinguillu-d; Servati.s Galiceui, R:>. 



ter.odaHienli&, 



