Antique Print-WILLIAM III OF ORANGE-MARY STUART-Hooghe-1690

Subject: Antique print, untitled. En profil double portrait of William III of Orange and Mary Stuart.

Condition: Fair, given age. No margins, fragment. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Etching on laid paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 11.5 x 11 cm. The image size is ca. 11.5 x 11 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 4.5 x 4.3 inch. The image size is ca. 4.5 x 4.3 inch.

Part Number: 62276

Location: PCO-C2-18

Description: Fragment of the battleplan of the Battle of the Boyne. Ref: FMH 2804a.

Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘Romeyn de Hooghe’ after own design. Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) was an important and prolific late Dutch Baroque, painter, sculptor, engraver and caricaturist. De Hooghe was born in Amsterdam. He was skilled as an etcher, draughtsman, painter, sculptor and medalist. He is best known for political caricatures of Louis XIV and propagandistic prints supporting William of Orange. During his career, de Hooghe produced over 3500 prints. He also illustrated books, and his illustrations can be found in some of the most important texts of his period. The Hieroglyphica of Merkbeelden der oude volkeren (1735) was a well known emblem book and sourcebook for classical mythology and its iconography. According to Houbraken he was particularly good at inventive arrangements of subjects in engravings. He was also a gifted painter and painted large panels for the rooms of the mayor’s office in Enkhuizen and a room in the estate of Mattthijs van den Broeck in Dubbeldam. Houbraken disapproved of his dissolute lifestyle however, and felt that despite an enormous talent, as he grew older, he engraved shameful subjects that were a disgrace to the profession. According to the RKD he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in 1662 and again in 1683 in the Hague. He was engaged to Maria Lansman of Edam in 1673, and their child was baptized in the Nieuwezijds Kapel in Amsterdam in 1674. He is known for decorative borders on large-scale city maps. His pupils were Filibert Bouttats (1654-after 1731), Filibertus Bouttats (1635�1707), Frans Decker, Fran�ois Harrewijn, Jacobus Harrewijn, Aernout Naghtegael, Laurens Scherm, and Adriaen Schoonebeek. De Hooghe died in Haarlem.