Willem Willem de Heusch

1625 (age 67)

Utrecht, Netherlands

1625 – 9 March 1692 (buried)) was a Dutch landscape painter. Nothing certain is recorded of him except that he presided over the gild of Utrecht, whilst Cornelis Poelenburg, January Both and January Weenix formed the council of that body, in 1649. But each of these statements seems open to doubt. And although it is obvious that the style of Heusch is identical with that of Both, it may be that the two masters during their travels in Italy fell under the influence of Claude Lorraine, whose Arcadian art they imitated. Heusch certainly painted the same effects of evening in wide expanses of country varied by rock formations and lofty thin-leaved arborescence as Both. There is little to distinguish one master from the other, except that of the two Both is perhaps the more delicate colourist. The gild of Utrecht in the middle of the 17th century was composed of artists who clung faithfully to each other. Poelemburg, who painted figures for January Both, did the same duty for Heusch. Sometimes Heusch sketched landscapes for the battlepieces of Molenaer. The most important examples of Heusch are in the galleries of The Hague and Rotterdam, in the Belvedere at Vienna, the Städel at Frankfort and the Louvre. His pictures are signed with the full name, beginning with a monogram combining a G (for Guilliam or Guglielmo), Doctorate and H Heusch"s etchings, of which thirteen are known, are also in the character of those of Both.

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De Heusch was born and died in Utrecht. According to the majority of historians, Heusch was born in 1638, and was taught by January Both.

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1625 – 9 March 1692 (buried)) was a Dutch landscape painter. Nothing certain is recorded of him except that he presided over the gild of Utrecht, whilst Cornelis Poelenburg, January Both and January Weenix formed the council of that body, in 1649. But each of these statements seems open to doubt.

And although it is obvious that the style of Heusch is identical with that of Both, it may be that the two masters during their travels in Italy fell under the influence of Claude Lorraine, whose Arcadian art they imitated.

Heusch certainly painted the same effects of evening in wide expanses of country varied by rock formations and lofty thin-leaved arborescence as Both. There is little to distinguish one master from the other, except that of the two Both is perhaps the more delicate colourist.

The gild of Utrecht in the middle of the 17th century was composed of artists who clung faithfully to each other. Poelemburg, who painted figures for January Both, did the same duty for Heusch.

Sometimes Heusch sketched landscapes for the battlepieces of Molenaer.

The most important examples of Heusch are in the galleries of The Hague and Rotterdam, in the Belvedere at Vienna, the Städel at Frankfort and the Louvre. His pictures are signed with the full name, beginning with a monogram combining a G (for Guilliam or Guglielmo), Doctorate and H Heusch"s etchings, of which thirteen are known, are also in the character of those of Both.

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