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Jacob de Gheyn II, an engraver and painter, was Goltzius's pupil. He matches his teacher as a draughtsman and at times even surpasses him. like his teacher, de Gheyn was equally gifted with pen, metal-point and chalk, but he did not have Goltzius's compulsion to make an ostentatious display of his virtuosity. De Gheyn's pen line frequently resembles the technique of engraving in its swelling and diminution and extensive use of hatching and dots to model form, but his touch is more nervous and hence seems less impersonal. His choice of subject range from ghostly drawings of witches' sabbaths to tender domestic scenes such as his Woman and Child looking at a Picture Book at Berlin. If any of the early Dutch draughtsmen gives a foretaste of Rembrandt in spiritedness of line and vivacity of characterization, it is de Gheyn.
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