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Volume 3, page 200-209
... [1]. In it he had depicted with his brush several figures of Lords who daily came to court, in their natural manner of moving, posture, and dress, even their features, so naturally and artfully that each of them could be recognized individually. This was praised by all as amazing, and satisfied the Royal family and the King, who let it be asked what the painter desired for his art work. This embarrassed our Vorsterman a little. The one advised him to offer it to the King as a present. Others advised him the opposite. He therefore demanded two thousand guilders for the same, which the King thought a little too much,...
... ctedly tossed on land by an unexpected headwind. The Spanish have a saying which applies to such folk which says: Fortune got tired of carrying him.No matter what requests for payment he had various acquaintances make at the court, it came to naught. In the meantime he sat in misery, until the painters agreed amongst each other to invest a little in his liberation. The innkeeper, who preferred a little sure money over waiting on a hopeless uncertainty, released him from prison. Then, starting from the beginning, he again appealed to the courtiers; but nothing had changed. In the meantime it happened that a diplomat from England [= Sir William Soames] went to the Porte [= Constantinople]. The latter took him along...
... e Viscount [= Frederik Hendrik van Randwijck] and he to Zaltbommel, where he belonged, and it was to my regret that I did not meet him at once, for the comical stories which he told me, which made the time, which was vexing because of the slow progress, seem brief to me. I discovered who he was on the occasion that I saw the corners of his paintings project from the corner of his duffel bag, whereupon I asked him if he had bought some works of art in Holland. Whereupon he told me that he had been in Holland to sell paintings as he was accustomed to do twic...
... ntioned Franck, his cousin, where he encountered Millet, then a young man of 17 years. As a consequence there is a difference of two years for his time of birth, which I find booked for the year 1644 with French writers. In which communication the mistake may reside, I don't care to do anxious research. We are not dealing in scriptural texts, where the last iota counts.To his credit Genoels tells me in mentioned letter (which I also did not want to hold back) that in Paris, painting a room with him, he discerned that he had a marvellously firm memory and was able to absorb so firm an...
... ad towards it a few times. He was only 18 years old when he married his master’s daughter, from which time fortune mildly favoured him. But whether his legs (as the proverb goes) could not carry luxury or whether he sought greater fame through excessive ...
... hat is why Govert Flinck (as we noticed in the description of his life) and others joined the school of Rembrandt. Amongst these was also my fellow townsman Arent de Gelder, who, after he had been taught the basics of art by Samuel van Hoogstraten, also moved to Amsterdam to learn Rembrandt's way of painting, which came to him so naturally and successfully that I must say to his credit that none of the others approached Rembrandt as closely in that manner of painting. In addition it is remarkable that he alone amongst such a large number who later abandoned that way of painting,...
... ings, firearms and swords, harnesses, etc., including shoes and slippers, and the ceiling and walls of his studio are hung with transparent and embroidered silk wrappings and veils, some whole, others torn, much like the captured army ensigns in the hall of the Hague’s Court.From this rich store he got the costumes for his pictures, just as he also has the habit of clothing his dummy from head to toe and of arranging it in such a guise as he needs,...
... ing Christ, in 22 pieces, of which 20 are already completed, in which most artfully the many passions or emotions may be seen from recognizable expressions, just as there is an inconceivable variation of dress and strange contrivances with respect to the clothing of figures, supplements and choices of daylight and shadow [3-14]. And I guess that these works will also be his last, because he already spends...
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Volume 2, page 220-229
... created all sorts of figures in wood with lively colours and carved, serving to be placed somewhere in a corner or entryway. I have seen some which, placed in their location fooled the eye, so that one might greet them like living figures. He also painted some lit and coloured in the manner of candlelight, which, in the dark, with a sconce with burning candle in the hand, made a natural show. Yes, people tell that such a statue as a prank of a certain gentleman, when he had received guests, was placed at the door or exit of the room so that s...
... created various large pieces to grace large rooms, both in Zeeland and elsewhere, in which he introduced all sorts of birds, each in its kind so naturally and boldly coloured, and thinly and clearly painted that it amazed me. I speak frankly and know how to judge it better (though that is not my habit) than the Bishop of Mechelen did for th...
... k went to visit him and finding him very sad, asked him for the reason, to which he answered that he was painting a lady whom he was not able to please and who, no matter how much effort he applied, scolded him as a botcher and bungler, so that he was tired of life because of this. Whereupon Van Dyck comforted him, saying that he should pay no attention to such utterances. That this had also happened to him and that he had overcome it with patience. When Charles I came into conflict with parliament and ...
... am.From the years 1655 to 58 he lived in a backroom in the Hartestraat, practicing his art by himself in all silence. And those who knew him tell me that he was then a young man of about forty years. His artful brush handling earned him the nickname of the small Van Dyck.Most of the paintings by him that one sees are merry companies of damsels and gentlemen dressed according to the times, with everything painted after life and mostly after virtuous life. Especially the hands of the women stand out in the art of painting as well as in tenderness and beautiful outline, even as I said of Van Dyck....
... ece is artfully drawn, naturally glowing and clearly painted and contrary to his habit, handsomely dressed. I knew it for many years and often looked at it with pleasure, but in whose cabinet it now...
... ancient Greeks there was even a law (as Pliny witnesses) which commanded that no one was allowed to learn the art of painting unless he was of noble birth and such a high fee was charged from those who desired to learn it that common people could forget it. We would give more samples of that kind from the store of antiquities if we had not done so elsewhere.Tabius Pictor of an old Roman family practiced the art of painting in the four hundred and fiftieth year of the foundation of Rome and painted the inside of the temple of Fortune, which burned down at the time of...
... on it so that no painter’s brush could have better captured it, and sent it to the mentioned King. This sounds mo...
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Volume 2, page 150-159
... until the threads broke and they tumbled head over heels over each other after this farcical game had lasted some time. And he was able to relate this with such amusing gestures that it would have been impossible to refrain from laughing. I can believe that he was the chief instigator of this show because he appeared to have inherited this from his father, who was able to play the part of another currish Diogenes and to tell everyone off in a comical way. The reader must not rue that I have once stepped out of my design and related a sample or three.Vincent van Drielenburg, father of our painter, was canon and a man of subs...
... and asked him what this could mean, he pushed on, saying, the wagon won't go straight.On another occasion, the court being assembled at the city hall, he went there and had the chamber servant request of the gentlemen whether he might be allowed to come inside because he had something to request, which was granted him. Arrived in the chamber, he was asked what he wanted. Whereupon he answered that he had heard that a police officer's place was vacant, and requested that he might be provided with it. The gentlemen were surprised at such a request, and looking at each other, asked him...
... his also was observed by him, as there was almost nothing that did not have to face the rod of his censure. Now, I had almost forgotten that he had become a widower in the meantime. What happens? He takes a lantern with lit candles and on a clear day took it through the city, which surprised everybody, who finally asked what he was seeking? Whom he answered: Bourgeois Daughters. And when they told him that there were plenty of those, he answered that they had all become...
... s seen and not praised it. It is composed by Charles Le Brun and cut by François de Poilly I. One sees Pallas on the clouds and Neptune addressing her from his shell chariot. In the distance one sees the muses and in the shadow of the clouds the arts etc. [1]. It was (when Le...
... g of the year 1674, when I guess he was about 50 years old. He entered the Artist's Society in the year 1655.If one should in emu...
... nsor in the prologue of his booklet entitled the Schoone ROSELIIN, printed in 1650. Here I bring Roselyn on stage, although it is dangerous to subject her beauty to everybody’s judgment. The great poet who polished his morning songs all day long did not go uncensored. How then would I, having served another goddess all day long and first thinking of Roselyn only while changing, be free? And a little lower: That is why I have devoted less time to it than may possibly satisfy the most exacting of you. Poetry is a sister of m...
... the paint, a way of proceeding whereby the pieces long keep their complete power and colour. As far as his histories are concerned, these are usually praiseworthy, graceful and harmonious, and the art lovers never had anything to complain about but that the colours, especially of the clothes, are used too isolated and unmixed and that in the last years of his life, to court favour unwisely, he sometimes introduced things to his pieces which he censored in his book about the...
... life and pleasure from change. This humour also crept up on our Batavian; thus he decided to undertake a journey to Rome. People say that he had been struck by love, and that he obeyed his wanderlust to suppress this passion. Whatever may be the case he prepared himself and commenced the journey from Dordrecht on the 16th of May of 1651. His poet’s pen had described the day’s events in Vienna in Austria in verses. However, we only want to accompany him in rhyme until outside the Bishopric Utrecht, so as not to ra...
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Volume 2, page 20-29
... this girl, gifted by nature with intelligence, an attractive face, a well-shaped body, and also not deprived of financial means (charms that would suffice to supply four men), as his portion. But as there is nothing permanent on this earth, he was not for long the owner of this happy lot. Because (after she had brought a son into the world for him) she succumbed to the dropsy, from which she had already suffered before her wedding day, and died in the year 1649. This brought him much grief, as he learned the worth of his fortune through having to do without, and to which he had to resign himself like all others. Because...
... leves and later Field Marshal of this Republic, who also often came to visit him when he was in Amsterdam or invited him in return. He also had the honour to be in the favour of many prominent gentlemen of Amsterdam, and among these the Lord Mayors Cornelis de Graeff and Andries de Graeff, the latter often coming to visit him at his house. And with the first mentioned he associated so casually that he would often in the evening, tired of painting, go visit him without invitation....
... to company but received with cordiality those who came to visit, mainly people of wisdom and knowledge, whom he gladly (even though he was unlettered) heard conversing.On Sundays, after he had dutifully attended church, he devoted the rest of the day to visiting artists and lovers of art, and...
... untimely death that the prince of Dutch poets (who was a friend of GOVERT FLINCK and often came to see him) alludes in the verse underneath the portrait cut by Abraham Bloteling [8].Thus lived Apelles GOVERT FLINCK, too soon torn away from the city,When he, chartered by her noble authorities,Would furbish the divine city hall with histories.As Tacitus expressed it as of old,Who teaches Romans to give way for the right of the Batavieren,Crowns the hero of painting with eternal laurels.Which image in print we followed in Pla...
... above the chimney to the north, more often mentioned, depicting Soloman when he prays to God for wisdom etc.Where Solomon’s prayers and sacrifice please God,Wisdom is promised to him at night from heaven’s throne,With riches, honour and desired daysWhen wisdom is consulted, the state comes out on top.He left a son [= Nicolaes Anthoni Flinck] as heir, whom he kept with great effort from taking up the practice of the art of painting because it is so difficult to become a great ma...
... ntly collected Italian drawings, and specifically the finest from the famous cabinets of Misters van Johan van der Does van Bergesteyn and Constantijn Huygens II, heer van Zuylichem. Mentioned Mister Nicolaas Antoni Flinck has repeatedly declared to his friends that when he has tired of activities involving matters of greater import, he is not refreshed by anything other than the perusal of one or another of his portfolios of drawings, after which he can resume his activities as if refreshed.After him appears the handsome landscape painter PIETER PIETERSZ....
... reason the Roman bent (with which he spent many years, so that there are few of his works to be seen in these parts) baptized him with the name Pollepel Ladle.I do not know whether he employed such facile painting at the beginning or end of his life. But in Amsterdam there is a small painting by him in which one sees how Pharaoh with chariot and horses drowns in the Red Sea, painted entirely in the manner of Hans Rottenhammer. Its owner is the widow of the lawyer Nicolaas Muys van Holy. He died in Voorburg, but in what year I do not know....
... nd Rebecca, the battle of Moses against the Amalekites, the judgement of Solomon, the battle of Joshua, and Ahasuerus and Esther. The art-loving Sieuwert van der Schelling selected and bought the best of these works. Mentioned Jan van Beuningen has assured me that he knows from impeccable sources that Giordano painted each of these pieces in two days. I pass it on at the price for which I received it, but is not believable, even though more examples of his exceptional facility are circulated, amongst ...
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Volume 1, page 360-369
... his thoughts. The reason for this, as I have already begun to tell, was that he did not use life while painting, not even for his figures, but used the concept that he had formed of them. Which is why when his spirits seemed tired by steady thinking, he revived them by playing a happy tune on his violin.The Romans gave him the nickname Bamboccio, a name used for such people who specialize in the making of Italian jokes, strange kinds of bows and bends...
... that these must have been bright lights like the ones who passed an apothecary's shop in Amsterdam, where a dressed monkey sat in the window, whom they asked, little man, which way must we go to the town hall?But a more in...
... r, none of us could restrain from laughing whenever we thought that he had been taken for a covered bag and had fooled the guard this way. But no matter how farcical and comical he was, the en...
... nd sad, were very naturally rendered, like others that pleased me ...
... y with raised sword, ready to deal the blow, were depicted. But the later art practitioners have heeded the moment in time, this being that a history only shows what transpired in a moment, and therefore found opportunity to capture the manifold changes and incidents in other scenes.Accordingly Mister Gerard van Loon says on p. 99 of his Inleiding tot de hedendaagsche penningkunde, such medals are to be dismissed on which the depicted matters are of such a nature that they could not have occurred at any one moment in time. For example, one may never depict on one and the same coin, the beginning of a battle, the surrender of the city, and the sack of the enemy’s possessions, while this can’t all happen in any one moment in time....
... es,Not to offend them with the glow of nude body members.Nor weep, oh beautiful one, weep no longer.Compel the sadness and shame to leave you.--------† Andromeda was Moorish. But to the best of my knowledge not one of the early or recent painters has heeded the truth of the history in that respect, but all have used Ovid, who says: truly a sea breeze stirred up her hair, and Perseus saw the lukewarm tears leaking down her cheeks. He will have thought that it was a marble statue, etc. This was possibly because they did not know or else took that freedom, seeing that a tanned skin is not as pleasing to the eye as a white skin....
... Adam Willaerts, whom we considered on page 60, was a commendab...
... red in ivy and to decorate his landscape with well-formed figures.Here one saw Celadon with his woolly ...
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Volume 1, page 160-169
... are and loved him for his pleasant behaviour, wishing to relieve her conscience, walked to a priest who, on her testimony, administered him the hallowed bread. The sick one, having just consciousness enough that he noticed this was being served to him in the Catholic manner, let it fall out of his mouth, so that later on, with the shaking of the covers, it fell to the ground behind the bed, and later, when having recovered somewhat, he had gone out for a walk to get some fresh air, it was found below the bed by the woman who, having seen him go out, had come to clean the room. She kept this to herself...
... red from his ailment. In the meantime the Feast of Easter was approaching and, as a consequence, the time for c...
... nsane and died in the year 1633.That same year 1596 brought forth LEONAERT BRAMER. Spurred on by wanderlust, he already headed for Arras in Artoys in his eighteenth year, and...
... ther’s knees buckle. He supports her while she collapses:But under the supporting, he almost collapsed with the woman,If Bramer had not with the power of bold paints,Strengthened her; covered the blood with night, and hiddenThe murderous gun; he tries to keep her from dying,Harnessed with metal so that sheMay ever lament in a copper painting.One finds recorded amongst the o...
... da Caravaggio, and among the Netherlanders, in olden days, Frans Floris, who, when he once wished to surpass his usual rapidity to show what the brush could achieve when it was spurred on by ambition, painted six pictures, life-size, within seven hours, which had to serve the splendid entry of Emperor Charles into Antwerp. We have laid these preparations to com...
... sh touches with little difficulty, so that an inventive recession decorated with peasant villages appeared. Here one saw an old homestead, with gate and water courts appear and mirrored in the lapping water, also various flags of ships and boats loaded with cargo or travellers. In short, his eye, directed as if looking at forms that were hidden in a chaos of mix...
... had come in with him. In addition he had no glistering gold or silver on him, which at once catches the eye and often gives cause to the curious to know who such a one may be.It was not long before the company admonished Van der Bruggen to fulfil his promise, whereupon he answered with laughing mouth: What if I happen to have brought him with me? This had everyone perk up their ears and one after another they now began to ask, where is he? Upon this (after keeping them fooled for a long time, he said La Fage is part of our company and pointed him out...
... y wished he should make? Whereupon one in the crowd called out to him: Pharaoh when he drowns in the Red Sea, which was contradicted by all because it was improper to demand from someone who did them th...
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5. The Problematic Titles and References of De groote schouburgh
... inks to online editions and in many instances to the precise pages to which Houbraken refers.Most of the problem titles concern Houbraken’s learned digressions about ancient customs, dress and trappings as guidance for young history painters, but some concern artists or their works, as when he discusses the excesses of Johannes Torrentius (1588/9-1644). Perhaps we...
... was botched by the typesetters of the De groote schouburgh. Houbraken also quotes Antonio de Guevara (1480-1545) without specifying a work. A search leads to Leyts-man der hovelingen (Guide of the Courtiers) of 1652, but not to a page reference.81 Finally Houbraken quotes four lines of explicit praise of women from ‘de Dichter van ‘t Lof der vrouwen’ (the poet of The Praise of Women).82 The poem, in fact entitled ‘Het waare vrouwen-lof’ (‘The True Praise of Women’) is appended to a treatise of 1678 by one Petrus de Vernoegde (dates unknown) which celebrates De tien delicatessen des huwelijks (The Ten Delicacies of Marriage) [3], which does little or nothing to advance the intellectual qualities of women.Turning to the predominant iconographic and antiquarian items, it is possible to identify a whole group of works despite Houbraken’s vagaries. We see that he altered De levens-bedryven der Griekse digteren (The Biographies of the Greek Poets) by Basilius Kenneth (1674-1716) to the Levensbeschryving der Grieksche Dichteren,83 but such a minor change can hardly slow anyone down. When Houbraken mentions ‘Fontenelle’ and his ‘t’samenspraak der Dooden’, his reference is obviously to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757) [4] and his Samenspraak der dooden (Dialogue of the Dead) of 1704, a translation of his Nouveaux dialogues des morts of 1683. 84 As a more vexing example, the biographer adduces Joseph Hall and refers in a note to ‘the preface to his Vliegende bedenkingen’.85 Although Houbraken has ‘Hal’ instead of Hall (as does Swillens), he apparently refers to Hall’s De Schoole der Wereld. Geopent in CXL. Vliegende bedenkingen (The School of the World. Opened in CXL Fleeting Considerations), as translated and published...
... Dutch edition that Houbraken could have consulted. Through deeper research using Google Books, we found the passage that must have been Houbraken's source on page 45 of Daniël Heinsius' Nederduytsche poëmata, published in Amsterdam in 1618. In the case of Nonnus Panopolitanus (5th century), whom Houbraken repeatedly adduces as just Nonnus,94 nothing connects him to any edition of his Dionysiaca, but all references go back to publications by Daniel Heinrius (1580-1655) as well. When Houbraken referred to ‘Kolumella de Asino, Lib. 2, Cap. 1’he must have intended Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (1st century AD) and a chapter heading of his Res rustica, but we still do not know the specifics or how our biographer came by his information, although it is quite possible that he took this from De zangberg gezuivert, muizenzang … by Dr. Chrysostomus Matanasius (The Hague 1716, p. 65).95There remains a small group of references that is still unresolved. The Redenvoering van eenen volmaakte redenaar by Petrus Francius (1645-1704) [6] must be based on an unidentifiable Dutch translation of his Oratio de perfecto et consummato oratore of 1689.96 Even more of a dead end is the Lofreden van den Haan (In Praise of the Rooster), also by Francius, and yet Houbraken seems to assume that many of his readers will have read it.97 In fact, we don’t even know if it is a work of prose or of poetry. Not even the assumption that Houbraken translated the title from the Latin helps. One Chevea98 could be Urbain Chevreau (1613-1701), but it no clear which on which publication Houbraken based his information. A reference to Petronius Arbiter (AD 27-66)99 must refer to his Satyricon but is otherwise completely open-ended, as we couldn’t find an early Dutch translation of this iconic work. As for the twice mentioned learned scholar Spencer, we believe we have at last identified him as Philipp Jacob Spener (1635-1705) [7].100 Obviously m...
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Volume 3, page 400-408
... ot allowed to take with him any of his art, the knight honoured him with one of the three pieces, being a Mary Magdalene...
... dress. But his great spirit intending a higher fate, he developed an aversion to them, so that he left several portra...
... on or additions of scrolls. He also found amusement in arranging various country places and gardens for his good friends, even where the ground was desolate and deformed, which unsuitability he was even able to use to his advantage and guide to harmony. Great spirits, says the politically astute Baltasar Gracián, have moved everyone to amazement by everything they undertook.With the death of the Elector, his great Maecenas, having occurred in June of 1716,...
... [7], a Holy Family for 2,500 [8], and a Mary Magdalen for 2,500 guilders [9].Just as his fame spread to many places, so it is also transferred to France, where none of his autograph works have been seen. Until in the year 1718, however, when the Duke of Orléans, regent of Franc...
... e in turn in his garden or in his house, with a good heart and always prepared to show them friendship.In praise of this hero painter and his matchles...
... form arch miracles:The find of an Apollo,How greatly does one appreciate it, before and after,In Caesar’s court and Jove’s churches!Nature long looked on curiouslyIf nature would in all parts,mitate her on painting panels,But tired of the long wait.In the end Van der Werff stepped forward,Near the shore of the Meuse;It halts the roaring of her foaming streamAnd wants only that his glory shines through.Then no other was allowedHe was allowed to paint ru...
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Volume 3, page 370-379
... n addition to his fame as artist, the honour of an impeccable life and the remains of his profits for the use of his wife and children.So that things do not always certainly proceed as a modern poet† (alluding to such a subject) says:Not everyone who follows your steps can be happyAnd if you ask me why? You are an honest man.Modest profits assembled by thrift have a man live much more reassured and happier than those who have a great fortune and--------† Hermanus van den Burg, Mengelpoëzy, p. 104....
... y well, seeing that fortune favoured him. He came to marry and had various children but could have lived amply off his art if he had not turned to gatherings in liquor stores and other excesses.It is reputed of Claudius Nero that as long as he lived under the supervision of his guardian Seneca and subjected himself to his teaching, he appeared to have a good character, but that as soon as he had become ruler, he erupted into every dissolution and villainy.This is also what Johannes Voorhout testifies, who knew Stuven in his youth, that he conducted himself politely, meekly, and was eager to learn in his youth as long as he was under the supervision of his masters. But hardly ...
... nt of a small portrait which was found later on. The boy nevertheless had to suffer much maltreatment. In addition he was prevented from writing to his parents. Nor could he go out or run off since his clothes, right down to his shoes, had been taken away and brought to the pawnshop. Thus he cried out his predicament, and that he suffered hunger and deprivation, to the neighbours from a window, which did him little good, seeing that the neighbours knew the viciousness of Stuven and as a consequence hesitated to get involved.Necessity is the mother of invention, the saying goes. Grasdorp seized an opportunity, wrote a letter to his mother and gave this in all silence...
... who had won) who came by at that time to discuss the matter, called him a scoundrel and said that he was the cause of his ruin, so that he had work enough pulling himself together and getting away alive. Then the bailiff sent two more of his officers, with the order that the boy be released. But he did not care to do this and cursed and slandered the authorities. His wife did the same, and she even had the nerve to go to the officer herself to complain about the injustice done to her, but managed with her bold tongue and cursing to get herself put in the stocks. When he got news of that Stuven became all the more crazy, had his son buy gunpowder and bullets, loaded...
... citizens, the riots were squelched and the magistrates protected from further disaster. That is why all those who took up arms at that time were gifted by the Misters burgomasters of Amsterdam with a silver medal, on which Neptune, pulled along in his shell carriage by two sea horses through a wild sea, stirred up by opposing winds, is depicted, with the inscription,Motos praestat componere fluctus.That is:It is best to subjugate the anger of the floods.As he would eventually also have to do. He then turned to Grasdorp, saying that he had to prepare himself for death, who then did not know...
... got up from his bed, attacks him like an enraged dragon, grabs him by the hair and drags him over the ground, pulls his palette and brushes out of the hand and sticks the brush handle through his lip so that the blood gushed down his chin, which set him screaming. But the mad dog almost stopped him from doing this by holding his throat so tightly that he was almost garrotted. Several hours later the neighbours called to Stuven from the back and lured him to the back courtyard and begged him to make less noise...
... ad they rammed the downstairs door into kindling, from which one of the night watch who wished to crawl in pulled back with a bloody head. They decided (since there was no chance of capturing him by that route without danger) to climb into the next house by way of the roof, by which route they reached the attic; but no one dared to be the first to go down the stairs, as he stood on guard there with sword in his fist and swore by all that was ugly to impale the first to come down. What now? They had the planks of the ceiling above the room in which he had shut himself pried open to snag him with a grappling hook. For the longest time he evaded and...
... ished to the workhouse for 12 successive years and his wife to the spinning house. But by promises never to do it again and recommendation of some who still loved his art, he got 6 years reduction of his sentence. After which he got out under the proviso that he leave the city. But he did not obey the order and could not restrain his tongue from slandering the magistrate....
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Volume 3, page 360-369
... to him again, he alone would be unfortunate. He undertook it and fortunately arrived in England, where he still lives and practices art.His son Robert Griffier, who was born to him in England on the 7th of October of 1688, is no less outstanding in his art than his father. He was not with him at sea when he suffered shipwreck, but in Ireland, but he later came to Holland and since his father’s departure has remained in Amsterdam, where he still practices art with great fame and makes himself renowned with the painting of Rhine prospects full of bustle of handsome figures and other decorations in the manner of Herman Saft...
... ame. He improved so greatly in art that he became first court painter of King James II, who also sent him (after his daughter Mary had married Willem III, Prince of Orange and Stadholder of Holland) from London to The Hague, to paint both their portraits after life [1-2].He was considered to be the best portrait painter of his time, and that his rising art-sun of the dawn of his life shone so brightly in the eyes of the envious has made many believe that he was sent to the Elysian Fields by way of poison. We will not go into that. But he died on the estate of the Ea...
... er that he went to Nicolaes Berchem, whose way of painting and subjects he liked better. Finally, through association with Johan van Huchtenburg, he surrendered entirely to horse painting.Here also appears the commendable landscape painter GUILLIAM de HEUSCH on stage, along with his nephew Jacob de Heusch, who at...
... t pleases us to relate a sample in confirmation of what is said. When he painted in Venice with Mister Lucatello, Secretary of the Senate, it happened that the mentioned gentleman would ride to his summer mansion. One of the horses repeatedly stubbing its horseshoe lost it, since the road was altogether covered in stones, so that the horse began to limp. Noticing this the coachman stopped the carriage and reported it to his master, who at once jumped out, lifted the leg of the horse, and mumbled some half-swallowed words of incantation over it, at which our painter had to laugh so hard that he shook. The gentle...
... , and about to go to bed, he began to vomit prodigiously, and, because of this, to spit blood.One surmises that he must have suffered internal injury to his chest from that fall, which burst out with the enormous pressure from vomiting. But be that as it may, ...
... ring,It backs up and curses fate for nastiness and cruelty:Now I have seen this beloved corpse lowered in the grave?What body can hold such a great spirit?My sun is extinguished, de Heus is gone.PHI...
... morate one because of a certain incident, located in the garden house of Mister Christiaan van Hoek in his Residence on the Vecht River, which Philip skilfully decorated on the inside with allegories in niches and other fine things. This work, having begun a little late in the year 1696, did not come to a halt until the canal was covered with ice. Smit, who also painted there and marbled the lintels and the framework, had his skates with him. Tideman who was not equipped for this, was to hold onto him tight and tag on behind him on the slippery ice. But this did not work. Thus it was decided that Tideman would wrap himself in his cloak and that Smit would hold on ...