Netscher, Constantine

, another son of Gaspard, who was born at the Hague in 1670, also practised the art of painting under the tuition of his father, whose works he carefully studied and though he never was able to equal them, yet he arrived at no mean degree of skill in his profession. His principal practice was in portraiture, in which he was much encouraged; but being of an infirm habit of constitution, he was much interrupted in his labours, and died in 1722, at the age of fifty-two. 1

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D’Argenville, vol. III.—Descamps, vols. III. and IV.—Walpole’s Acecdotes.—Rees’s Cyclopædia.