Michael Vandergucht or Michiel van der Gucht (c. 1660 – 16 October 1725) was a

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engraver and painter who worked for most of his career in England.Shearer West, ''Vandergucht family (Gucht, van der)''
at Grove Art Online, accessed 20 March 2022 He engraved portraits, book illustrations, and architectural prints and painted portraits.''Michael Vandergucht (1660-1725), Engraver'', at the National Portrait Gallery
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Life

Vandergucht was born in

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, where he became a pupil of

Frederik Bouttats the Younger Frederik Bouttats, an engraver, was born at Antwerp about the year 1620. He engraved several plates after his own designs, principally portraits, and some after other masters. They are worked with the graver, in a neat style, and are not without m ...

.Michiel van der Gucht
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History He was registered as an apprentice in the Antwerp artists' guild, the Guild of St Luke between 18 September 1672 and 18 September 1673.Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius (ed.), ''De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde''
Volume 2, Antwerp, Julius de Koninck, 1871, pp. 421, 424 He is recorded in Amsterdam when on 19 June 1682 he posted banns to marry Maria van Hogenbergh van Aerschot. He lived on the Rosengracht in Amsterdam. He moved to England before July 1688. He trained his sons

Gerard Vandergucht Gerard Vandergucht (or van der Gucht) (1696/97 – 18 March 1776) was an English engraver and art dealer. Vandergucht, was born in London, the elder son of the Flemish engraver Michael Vandergucht. He was taught engraving by his father, as w ...

(1696/7–1776) and Jan Vandergucht (or John) (c.1699-c.1730) and George Vertue and James Smith as engravers. His son Gerard became one of the leading engravers in London, following the French method of combining precise engraving with the etched tones. Gerard had 30 children of whom one,

Benjamin Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

, was a successful engraver, picture restorer and painter. He died from gout in his house, the Golden Head in Queen Street,

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, and was buried in the churchyard of St Giles-in-the-Fields.

Work

He engraved portraits, book illustrations, and architectural prints and painted portraits. He kept to a restrained form of engraving, without etching. His figures often appear wooden and uninspired. He provided many of the engravings for the first complete English translation of

Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio ( ; ; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of th ...

's '' I quattro libri dell'architettura'' published in London in 1715. Most plates in the publication are reverse-copies of those in the original edition, but with measurements corrected by its editor and publisher,

Giacomo Leoni Giacomo Leoni (1686 – 8 June 1746), also known as James Leoni, was an Italian architect, born in Venice. He was a devotee of the work of Florentine Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti, who had also been an inspiration for Andrea Pallad ...

.''The Architecture Of A. Palladio; In Four Books. Containing, A short Treatise of the Five Orders, and the most necessary Observations concerning all sorts of Building, As Also The different Construction of Private and Publick Houses, High-Ways, Bridges, Market-Places, Xystes, and Temples, with their Plans, Sections, and Uprights. To which are added several Notes and Observations made by Inigo Jones, never printed before. Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd By Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian; Architect to his most Serene Highness, the Elector Palatine. Translated from the Italian Original.''
at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vandergucht, Michael 1660 births 1725 deaths Flemish engravers 17th-century engravers 18th-century engravers Artists from Antwerp