GODFRIED

SCHALCKEN (1643-1706)  , Dutch genre and portrait painter, was born at Dort in 1643, and studied under Hoogstraten, and afterwards under Gerhard Douw, whose works his earlier genre-pictures very closely resemble . He visited England and painted several portraits, of which the half-length of William III., now in the Museum, Amsterdam, is a good example . In this work he shows an effect of candle-light, which he also introduced—frequently with fine effect—in many of his subject-pictures . These may be studied in the collections at Buckingham Palace, the Louvre, Vienna and Dresden . His Scriptural subjects are of very indifferent merit . He died at The Hague in 1706 .