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	(2) Jacobus Houbraken (b Dordrecht, 25 Dec 1698; d Amsterdam, 14 Nov 1780). Engraver, etcher and collector, son of (1) Arnold Houbraken. In the autumn of 1710 he moved to Amsterdam with his parents. Houbraken learnt how to engrave from his father and began by copying prints by Cornelis Cort, Jonas Suyderhoef and Cornelis Visscher. He etched with some skill a fine series of artists’ portraits after designs by his father for the Groote schouburgh and also for Jan van Gool’s Nieuwe schouburg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders (The Hague, 1750–51). Part of the Houbraken family
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	Houbraken, Jacobus Houbraken collaboration Vertue, George dealing Segers, Hercules, §5: Critical reception and posthumous reputation personal collection Prints, §V: Collecting and connoisseurship pupils Tanjé, Pieter reproductive prints by others Gainsborough, Thomas, §1(i): Early years and training in London, to 1748 teachers Houbraken: (1) Arnold Houbraken works Knapton, George Pothoven, Hendrik Quinkhard, Jan Maurits Troost, Cornelis, §2: Critical reception and posthumous reputation Weenix: (1) Jan Baptist Weenix

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