HOOGSTRATEN, SAMUEL DIRKSZ VAN

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HOOGSTRATEN, SAMUEL DIRKSZ VAN , Dutch painter, was born, it is said, in 1627 at the Hague, and died at Dort on the 19th of October 1678. This artist, who was first a pupil of his father, lived at the Hague and at Dort till about 164o, when on the death of

Dirk

DIRK

Hoogstraten

HOOGSTRATEN, SAMUEL DIRKSZ VAN

he changed his residence to

Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM
AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

and entered the school of

Rembrandt

REMBRANDT (1606-1669)

. A short time afterwards he started as a master and painter of portraits, set out on a round of travels which took him (1651) to Vienna, Rome and London, and finally retired to Dort, where he married in 1656, and held an appointment as " provost of the mint."

Hoogstraten

HOOGSTRATEN, SAMUEL DIRKSZ VAN

's works are scarce; but a sufficient number of them has been preserved to show that he strove to imitate different styles at different times. In a portrait dated 1645 in the Lichtenstein collection at Vienna he imitates

Rembrandt

REMBRANDT (1606-1669)

; and he continues in this vein as

late

LATE

as 1653, when he produced that wonderful figure of a Jew looking out of a casement, which is one of the most characteristic examples of his manner in the Belvedere at Vienna. A view of the Vienna Hofburg, dated 1652, in the same gallery displays his skill as a painter of architecture, whilst in a piece at the Hague representing a Lady

Reading

READING

Letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

as she crosses a Courtyard, or a Lady Consulting a

Doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

, in the Van der Hoop Museum at

Amsterdam

AMSTERDAM
AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

, he imitates de Hooch. One of his latest works is a portrait of Mathys van den Brouck, dated 167o, in the gallery of Amsterdam. The scarcity of Hoogstraten's pictures is probably due to his versatility. Besides directing a mint, he devoted some time to literary labours, wrote a book on the theory of painting (1678) and composed sonnets and a tragedy. We are indebted to him for some of the

familiar

FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

sayings of Rembrandt. Hewas an etcher too, and some of his plates are still pre-served. His portrait, engraved.' by himself at the age of fifty, still exists.

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