Willem de Heusch (1625–1692)

• Was a Dutch landscape painter and engraver.
• De Heusch was born and died in Utrecht.
• He likely studied with Jan Both.
• He presided over the gild of Utrecht, whilst Cornelis Poelenburg, Jan Both and Jan Weenix formed the council of that body, in 1649.
• One pupil of de Heusch in Utrecht was his nephew, Jacob de Heusch.
• His pictures are signed with the full name, beginning with a monogram combining a G (for Guilliam or Guglielmo), D and H.
• The gild of Utrecht in the middle of the 17th century was composed of artists who clung faithfully to each other.
• Poelemburg, who painted figures for Jan Both, did the same duty for Heusch.
• Sometimes Heusch sketched landscapes for the battlepieces of Molenaer.
• The most important examples of Heusch are in the galleries of The Hague and Rotterdam, in the Belvedere at Vienna, the Städel at Frankfort and the Louvre.
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