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(2) Jacques de Gheyn III
(b ?Amsterdam, ?1596; d Utrecht, 5 June 1641). Draughtsman, etcher and possibly painter, son of (1) Jacques de Gheyn II. He worked in The Hague and later in Utrecht, where he became canon of the St Mariakerk. In 1618 he was travelling in England with Constantijn Huygens the elder, and in 1620 he went to Sweden, taking eight of his father’s works. His drawings are sometimes indistinguishable from those of his father. The work of Jacques de Gheyn III is generally of less importance than his father’s, with the exception of some of the early etchings, for example the dramatically lit series of Seven Wise Men from Greece (1616; Hollstein, nos 10–17), or the Triton Blowing a Shell (Hollstein, no. 23) and a few drawings in which he did not imitate his father. Jacques III’s etching style was still largely based on the engraving technique used by Goltzius and by his own father, but the dramatic treatment of light and dark seems related to the tenebrist style of Adam Elsheimer and of his follower Hendrik Goudt, who was active in Utrecht from 1611.
Part of the Gheyn, de family
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