. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. erty overtook him in his old age. He was reducedto the shelter of an almshouse in i6S6, and died there, having survivedhis friend many years. Hercules Seghers, a landscape-painter even more unfortunate thanRoghman, was no less generously appreciated by Rembrandt. Itseems unlikely, however, that there was much intercourse between the two, taking into accountthe difference in their re-spective ages. The date of Seo-hers birth is nol; o known, but he was prac-tising in Amsterdam soearly as 1607, and tracesof him are to be foundfrom time to time till
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. erty overtook him in his old age. He was reducedto the shelter of an almshouse in i6S6, and died there, having survivedhis friend many years. Hercules Seghers, a landscape-painter even more unfortunate thanRoghman, was no less generously appreciated by Rembrandt. Itseems unlikely, however, that there was much intercourse between the two, taking into accountthe difference in their re-spective ages. The date of Seo-hers birth is nol; o known, but he was prac-tising in Amsterdam soearly as 1607, and tracesof him are to be foundfrom time to time till ]y virtue no less of hisaspirations than of hisactual achievenients, Seg-hers deserves to rankamong those pioneers wholed the way to the emanci-pation of Dutch art, andproclaimed its true voca-tion. After a life of con-stant struggle with povertyhe was reduced to sellinghis plates at starvationprices, and even to cuttingthem up in order to makesome trifling profit onthem. His prints weremainly appreciated by hisgrocer and fruiterer, who. J. 1 UMlJliS 1-1-K About 1653 (B- 264). used them to wrap up their goods. His iriisfortunes seem to havepersisted, even beyond the grave, for all his works have disappeared,with the exception of two pictures, the Dtitch Landscape in the BerlinMuseum, a wide plain with a distant town beside a canal, and thefine landscape in the Uffizi, known as The Slorin, and long ascribedto Rembrandt.^ Yet Seghers was one of the most prolific artists of his day. Noless than thirty-six of his pictures, some among them of consiclerableimportance, appear in the inventory of Johannes de Renialmes effects, Mts restitution to Seghers was due to Dr. Bode. An engraving of this landscape,bearing Seghers name, has lately come to Hglu, confirming Dr. Bodes pronnunrcment. HERCULES SEGHERS 2S1 dated 1644. Both in his pictures and engravings Seghers foreshadowsthose panoramic expanses of plains and waters, of alternate bands oflight and shadow, the
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