Antique Print-PORTRAIT-ARNOLD HOOGVLIET-POET-Jakob Houbraken-1720

Engraving on hand laid paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 16.4 x 22 cm. The image size is ca. 14.4 x 19 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 6.5 x 8.7 inch. The image size is ca. 5.7 x 7.5 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘Dit’s Hoogvliet […]’ – A portrait of the Dutch 17th century poet Arnold Hoogvliet. Allegorical borders with cherubs and a harp. The poem below the portrait by Joan Vermeulen. Published by Pieter van der Aa in a publication to be determined, published 1720.Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘Jacobus Houbraken’ after an anonymous artist. Jacobus Houbraken: (Dutch 1698-1780). Engraver, etcher and collector, son of Arnold Houbraken. In the autumn of 1710 he moved to Amsterdam with his parents. Houbraken learnt how to engrave from his father and began by copying prints by Cornelis Cort, Jonas Suyderhoef and Cornelis Visscher. He etched with some skill a fine series of artists’ portraits after designs by his father for the Groote schouburgh and also for Jan van Gool’s Nieuwe schouburg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders (The Hague, 1750-51). Jacobus Houbraken first studied and apprenticed under his father, Arnold Houbraken (1660-1719), a well respected engraver in his own right. The younger Houbraken quickly evolved a technique which shared some affinity with the portrait engravings of the great seventeenth century French school, most notably those of Nanteuil, Drevet and Edelinck. For the English speaking world, Houbraken?s name is most closely linked to the massive project entitled, Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain, published in parts in London from 1743 to 1752. Working with the historian and artist, George Vertue, Houbraken engraved most of the important representations of Britain’s most noted men from the past. Houbraken’s greatest portraits, however, were his engravings based upon capturing the likenesses of his contemporaries. Here we see his precise and subtle use of the engraved line to its best advantage. These skills amazed most of Houbraken’s fellow artists. A generation later, the famous Italian engraver, Raphael Morghen, remarked, No engraver has ever equaled, and probably will not equal, the Dutchman Jacobus Houbraken, in the manner of imitating the flesh and the hair by means of the engraver. (G. C. Williamson, Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, London, Bell & Sons, 1927, Vol. III, p. 77).

Condition: Fair, given age. Paper damage in the top right corner (with very slight loss of image). General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANTIQUE PRINT-PORTRAIT-ARNOLD HOOGVLIET-POET-JAKOB HOUBRAKEN

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