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SCARCE ORIG 1850s TINTED ENGRAVING "THE RIVER BANK" JAN VAN DER HEYDEN - $75 (Kingsland)
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Exquisitely hand tinted original engraving by Jean Jacques Outhwaite (French/British, 1836-1877) after the original painting by Jan van der Heyden (Dutch, 1637-1712). Signed on the plate, as shown. Professionally triple-matted and framed. 16" x 18". In very good condition. Cash only. Local pick-up is at the Dollar General parking lot, just off I-95, GA exit 7
Jan van der Heyden (5 March 1637, Gorinchem – 28 March 1712, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, glass painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Van der Heyden was one of the first Dutch painters to specialize in townscapes and became one of the leading architectural painters of the Dutch Golden Age. He painted a number of still lifes in the beginning and at the end of his career.
Jan van der Heyden was also an engineer and inventor who made significant contributions to contemporary firefighting technology. Together with his brother Nicolaes, who was a hydraulic engineer, he invented an improvement of the fire hose in 1672. He modified the manual fire engine, reorganized the volunteer fire brigade (1685) and wrote and illustrated the first firefighting manual (Brandspuiten-boek). A comprehensive street lighting scheme for Amsterdam, designed and implemented by van der Heyden, remained in operation from 1669 until 1840 and was adopted as a model by many other towns and abroad.
In his youth, Jean-Jacques Outhwaite was trained in drawing and the art of engraving by Edward Goodall.
He arrived in Paris in the mid-1830s: at that time, he painted landscapes in the company of two artists and compatriots, William Callow and Charles Bentley (1805-1854), who were vacationing in Normandy.
In 1836, he began to exhibit a watercolor at the Salon, View of Notre-Dame, taken from the Pont d'Austerlitz; he is mentioned as living at 13, rue Guénégaud. He worked for publishers of prints and illustrated works, the first of which seems to have been Charles Gavard.
He practiced wood engraving but especially the burin on steel, in the form of intaglio.
According to Henri Beraldi, the bulk of Outhwaite's activity was from 1835 to 1870. There are illustrations on steel after Raffet, Noël, Karl Girardet, Daubigny, Léon Morel-Fatio, Eugène Isabey, Eugène Lami, among others. He has contributed to numerous albums of prints on the revolutionary period, the First Empire and scenes of various colonial or historical wars.
His last exhibition dates from 1877. Alphonse Lamotte was his pupil.
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