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DIRK RAFELSZ CAMPHUYSEN (1586—1627)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 136 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIRK RAFELSZ See also:CAMPHUYSEN (1586—1627)  , Dutch painter, poet and theologian, was the son of a surgeon at Gorcum . As he manifested See also:great See also:artistic See also:talent, his See also:brother, in whose See also:charge he was See also:left on the See also:death of his parents, placed him under the painter Govaerts . But at that See also:time there was intense See also:interest in See also:theology; and See also:Camphuysen, sharing in the prevailing See also:enthusiasm, deserted the pursuit of See also:art, to become first a private See also:tutor and afterwards See also:minister of Vleuten near See also:Utrecht(1616) . As, however, he had embraced the doctrines of See also:Arminius with fervour, he was deprived of this See also:post and driven into See also:exile (1619) . His See also:chief solace was See also:poetry; and he has left a See also:translation of the See also:Psalms, and a number of See also:short pieces, remarkable for their freshness and See also:depth of poetic feeling . He is also the author of several theological See also:works of See also:fair merit, among which is a Compendium Doctrinae Sociniorum; but his fame chiefly rests on his pictures, which, like his poems, are mostly small, but of great beauty; the colouring, though thin, is pure; the See also:composition and pencilling are exquisite, and the See also:perspective above See also:criticism . The best of his works are his sunset and moonlight scenes and his views of the See also:Rhine and other See also:rivers . The See also:close of his See also:life was spent at Dokkum . His See also:nephew See also:Raphael (b . 1598) is by some considered to have been the author of several of the works ascribed to him; and his son Govaert (1624—1674); a follower or imitator of See also:Paul See also:Potter, is similarly credited .

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