DOI chapter:
John Hackaert
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JOHN HACKAERT.
No mention is made by writers of the master under
whom he learnt the art, and any opinion formed on
the subject, by a comparison of his style and manner
with those of John Both, Frederick Moucheron, and
other similar painters, must be vague and uncertain.
He is said to have travelled when young, through
Germany and Switzerland, for the purpose of studying
from nature, and that while he embued his mind with
a knowledge of her colour and peculiar effects, he at
the same time stored his folio with numerous studies
that might assist him in his future labours. The value
and utility of these pictorial excursions were manifested
on his return to his native country, by the production
of several clever pictures, representing the wild romantic
scenery of the countries he had visited; these brought
him into notice, and procured him an ample share of
the public estimation; and, like his contemporary
artists, he was much engaged in painting large deco-
rative pictures : hence his easel productions are few in
number, and of those, a very small portion only are
entitled to the term pre-eminent; for although his open
and excursive views possess considerable merit, in the
beauty and warmth of the colouring, the freedom and
appropriateness of the execution, and the taste evinced
in the details, they are in general less perfect, as works
os art, than the wood scenes peculiar to his native
country, which he has so successfully represented. In
these pictures, he has not only embodied the real form
and characteristic of the various objects pourtrayed,
but has given them under the most fascinating aspect
that the presence of sunshine can produce.
JOHN HACKAERT.
No mention is made by writers of the master under
whom he learnt the art, and any opinion formed on
the subject, by a comparison of his style and manner
with those of John Both, Frederick Moucheron, and
other similar painters, must be vague and uncertain.
He is said to have travelled when young, through
Germany and Switzerland, for the purpose of studying
from nature, and that while he embued his mind with
a knowledge of her colour and peculiar effects, he at
the same time stored his folio with numerous studies
that might assist him in his future labours. The value
and utility of these pictorial excursions were manifested
on his return to his native country, by the production
of several clever pictures, representing the wild romantic
scenery of the countries he had visited; these brought
him into notice, and procured him an ample share of
the public estimation; and, like his contemporary
artists, he was much engaged in painting large deco-
rative pictures : hence his easel productions are few in
number, and of those, a very small portion only are
entitled to the term pre-eminent; for although his open
and excursive views possess considerable merit, in the
beauty and warmth of the colouring, the freedom and
appropriateness of the execution, and the taste evinced
in the details, they are in general less perfect, as works
os art, than the wood scenes peculiar to his native
country, which he has so successfully represented. In
these pictures, he has not only embodied the real form
and characteristic of the various objects pourtrayed,
but has given them under the most fascinating aspect
that the presence of sunshine can produce.