By Arnold Hoogvliet, signed
1738

Arnold Hoogvliet ( 1687 – 1763 ) was an edifying poet from the eighteenth century .

Hoogvliet was the son of Johannes Hoogvliet and Katarina Paspoort. He grew up in a wealthy family. Hoogvliet was primarily trained in administrative tasks (notary clerk, bookkeeper at the Lening Bank in Dordrecht), but also developed some skills as a silversmith. In Dordrecht he came into contact with a group of poets and joined them. In 1719 Publius Ovidius Nasoos holidays in Hollandsch licht , a translation of Ovid 's Fasti , was published . His best-known work is the long poem Abraham, the Patriarch, in XII books (1727), of which ten editions were published in over a century. He married Ida van der Ruit on 30 November 1735. In 1750 he was elected to the town council.

200mm x 247mm x 80mm (2,3kgs)

R3,500