. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . Fig. Go, Coi ii£liui \isscher : The Ratcatcher i^detail_). 154 ENGRAVING IN THE LOW COUNTRIES absolutely unrestrained freedom, almost like an etching-needle, and in his bold and vicjorous engravincrs after the. Fig. 70. Jonas Suyderhoef: Portrait of the Preacher, van Aken. portraits of Frans Hals he succeeded wonderfully inreproducing the effect of the originals, even to the broadbrush-marks (fig. 70). JACOB HOUBRAKEN i55 The changes of taste in Dutch art of the eighteenthcentury show a swift dccHne. While the
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . Fig. Go, Coi ii£liui \isscher : The Ratcatcher i^detail_). 154 ENGRAVING IN THE LOW COUNTRIES absolutely unrestrained freedom, almost like an etching-needle, and in his bold and vicjorous engravincrs after the. Fig. 70. Jonas Suyderhoef: Portrait of the Preacher, van Aken. portraits of Frans Hals he succeeded wonderfully inreproducing the effect of the originals, even to the broadbrush-marks (fig. 70). JACOB HOUBRAKEN i55 The changes of taste in Dutch art of the eighteenthcentury show a swift dccHne. While the remembranceof the great glories of the past was never quite blottedout, all the branches of art in Holland at this laterperiod produced only a few isolated artists who had anypretension to special importance. One instance of suchisolation is Jacob Houbrakcn (born at Dordrecht in 1698,died at Amsterdam in1780), who made it hisspecial endeavour touphold the traditionsof his native school ofengraving, and at thesame time to combinewith them the eleganceof the French schoolwhich was now risinginto prominence. Inthe course of his longlife Houbraken executedsome seven hundredportraits after contem-porary or earlier paint-ings. To the very lasthe maintained an evenlevel of excellence in his c
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