Houbraken, Jacobus
Dutch engraver
Jacobus Houbraken, (born Dec. 25, 1698, Dordrecht, Holland—died Nov. 14, 1780, Amsterdam), the leading portrait engraver in 18th-century Holland. The son of the painter and art writer Arnold Houbraken, he settled in Amsterdam in 1707, and during his lifetime he engraved 400 portraits after paintings by contemporary Dutch painters.
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