Romeyn de Hooghe
Allegory of Coinage
Illustrations
La Feste de Trois Rois, aux Invalides
Battle of Saint-Denis 1678
Peace Conference at Breda
The Epiphany of the New Antichrist
Panurge seconde par Arlequin Deodaat a la Croisade d'irlande
The flight of the Popedom out of England
Anticurius van Loevesteyn
L'Europe Allarmee
Qualis vir Talis Oratio
King William III. and Queen Mary
William of Orange arrives in London
Romeyn de Hooghe (bapt. 10 September 1645 – 10 June 1708) was an important and prolific late Dutch Baroque, painter, sculptor, engraver and caricaturist. De Hooghe was born in Amsterdam. He was skilled as an etcher, draughtsman, painter, sculptor and medalist. He is best known for political caricatures of Louis XIV and propagandistic prints supporting William of Orange. During his career, de Hooghe produced over 3500 prints. He also illustrated books, and his illustrations can be found in some of the most important texts of his period. The Hieroglyphica of Merkbeelden der oude volkeren (1735) was a well known emblem book and sourcebook for classical mythology and its iconography.
According to Houbraken he was particularly good at inventive arrangements of subjects in engravings. He was also a gifted painter and painted large panels for the rooms of the mayor's office in Enkhuizen and a room in the estate of Mattthijs van den Broeck in Dubbeldam.[1] Houbraken disapproved of his dissolute lifestyle however, and felt that despite an enormous talent, as he grew older, he engraved shameful subjects that were a disgrace to the profession.[1]
Contrary to this, the historian Simon Schama wrote in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo killings of 2015 that: "The first great modern graphic satirist was Romeyn de Hooghe, enlisted by William III at the end of the 17th century in his relentless war to the death with Louis XIV. De Hooghe obliged with sprawling cartoons representing the wars against the French monarch and his allies as a battle between liberty and religious despotism".[2]
According to the RKD he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in 1662 and again in 1683 in the Hague.[3] He was engaged to Maria Lansman of Edam in 1673, and their child was baptized in the Nieuwezijds Kapel in Amsterdam in 1674.[3] He is known for decorative borders on large-scale city maps. His pupils were Filibert Bouttats (1654-after 1731), Filibertus Bouttats (1635–1707), Frans Decker, François Harrewijn, Jacobus Harrewijn, Aernout Naghtegael, Laurens Scherm, and Adriaen Schoonebeek.[3] De Hooghe died in Haarlem.
References
(Dutch) Romeyn de Hooghe Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
Simon Schama, "Liberty and laughter will live on", Financial Times 7 January 2015, Life and Arts section, p. 1
Romeyn de Hooghe in the Netherlands Institute for Art History
Romeyn de Hooghe on Artnet
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