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Unfortunately, we have no clues about [Hercules] Segers's reputation as an etcher during his lifetime, and it seems very probable that those of his prints which have survived were originally gathered in a few large, privately owned and therefore inaccessible groups. This inaccessibility partly explains their minimal influence on later artists.

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[Rembrandt] admired Seger's reworking of the [etch-]plate to create different states. This adventurous approach to printmaking [new developed by Segers] was taken up enthusiastically by Rembrandt, and gives a new significance undreamt of by Segers.

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John Rewald

John Rewald

Born: May 12, 1912
Died: February 2, 1994 (aged 81)
Bio: John Rewald was an American academic, author and art historian. He was known as a scholar of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, and other French painters of the late 19th century.
Known for:
  1. Post-impressionism, from Van Gogh to Gauguin (1956)
  2. Studies in impressionism (1985)
  3. Degas's complete sculpture
  4. The history of impressionism (1946)

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