17^th Century Dutch

Painter, sculptor, printmaker and drawing artist; writer and leading figure in Dutch Late Baroque.

Some sources refer to him as Romeyn de Hooghe. He is known for his political caricatures of Louis XIV of France and his prints in praise of William III of Orange of England. He produced many prints, but very few of his drawings and even less paintings have survived.

His style is defined by a strong contrast of light and shadow and its expressive composition.

An illustrator of books, his prints may be found in some of the most important texts of the time, including the Hieroglyphica of Merkbeelden der oude Volkeren (1735), a highly popular treatise in the Netherlands and in traditionally reformist places, like England, and for which Hooch created 63 etchings and part of the text.