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(1) Michael Vandergucht
(b Antwerp, 1660; d London, 16 Oct 1725). Illustrator and painter. He studied with Frederick Bouttats (d 1676) in Antwerp and by 1700 was in London, where he studied with the artist David Loggan and began contributing engravings to illustrated books. These usually adopted the designs of other artists; for example, his engravings for Jacob Tonson’s edition (1697) of Virgil were based on works by Wenzel Hollar, William Faithorne and others. His speciality was the portrait frontispiece, for instance that for Daniel Defoe’s Jure divino (1706). He also engraved allegorical subjects, including the Story of Phaethon and Transformation of Scylla, which accompanied Tonson’s edition (1717) of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Although his figures often appear wooden and uninspired, he had great success, partly because of the lack of competent engravers in London at the time. Some oil portraits at Knole, Kent, have also been tentatively attributed to him. He died of gout at his home in Bloomsbury, London. George Vertue was among his pupils.
Part of the Vandergucht family
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