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Encyclopedia Britannica



HUCHTENBURG

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 848 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HUCHTENBURG , the name of two brothers who were Dutch painters in the second half of the 17th century. Both were natives of Haarlem. Jacob, the elder, of whom very little is known, studied under Berghem, and went early to Italy, where he died
young
  about 1667. His pictures are probably confounded with those of his brother. In Copenhagen, where alone they are catalogued, they illustrate the style of a Dutchman who transfers Berghem's cattle and flocks to Italian landscapes and market-places.
John van Huchtenburg (16461733), horn at Haarlem it is said in 1646, was first taught by
Thomas
  Wyk, and afterwards induced to visit the
chief
  cities of Italy, where, penetrating as far as Rome, he met and dwelt with his brother Jacob. After the death of the latter he wandered homewards, taking Paris on his way, and served under Van der
Meulen
 , then employed in illustrating for Louis XIV. the campaign of 16671668 in the Low Countries. In 167o he settled at Haarlem, where he married, practised and kept a dealer's shop. His style had now merged into an imitation of Philip Wouvermans and Van der
Meulen
 , which could not fail to produce pretty pictures of hunts and robber camps, the faculty of painting horses and men in action and varied dress being the
chief
  point of attraction. Later Huchtenburg ventured on cavalry skirmishes and engagements of regular troops generally, and these were admired by Prince
Eugene
  and William III., who gave the painter sittings, and commissioned him to throw upon canvas the chief incidents of the battles they fought upon the continent of Europe. When he died at Amsterdam in 1733, Huchtenburg had done much by his pictures and prints to make Prince
Eugene
 , King William and Marlborough popular. Though clever in depicting a melee or a skirmish of dragoons, he remained second to Philip Wouvermans in accuracy of drawing, and inferior to Van der Meulen in the production of landscapes. But, nevertheless, he was a clever and spirited master, with
great
  facility of hand and considerable natural powers of observation.
The earliest date on his pictures is 1674, when he executed the " Stag-Hunt " in the Museum of Berlin,and the " Fight with Robbers " in the Lichtenstein collection at Vienna. A " Skirmish at Fleurus (169o) in the Brussels gallery seems but the precursor of larger and more powerful works, such as the " Siege of Namur " (1695) in the Belvedere at Vienna, where William III. is seen in the foreground accompanied by Max
Emmanuel
 ., the Bavarian elector. Three years before, Huchtenburg had had sittings from Prince Eugene (Hague museum) and William III. (Amsterdam Trippenhuis). After 1696 he regularly served as court painter to Prince Eugene, and we have at Turin (gallerv7 a
series
  of eleven canvases all of the same size depicting the various battles of the
great
  hero, commencing with the fight of Zentha against the Turks in 1697, and con-eluding with the capture of Belgrade in 1717. Had the duke of Marlborough been fond of art he would doubtless have possessed many works of our artist. All that remains at Blenheim, however, is a couple of sketches of battles, which were probably sent to Churchill by his great contemporary. The pictures of Huchtenburgare not very numerous now in public galleries. There is one in the National Gallery, London, another at the Louvre. But Copenhagen has four, Dresden six, Gotha two, and Munich has the well-known composition of " Tallart taken Prisoner at Blenheim in 1704."


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