POUSSIN, GASPARD, whose real name was Dughet, was born at Rome in 1613. His father, who was French, had settled in Rome sometime before his birth, and Nicolas Poussin having married his sister, he acquired the appellation by which he is ordinarily known. He studied under his brother-in-law, by whose advice he adopted landscape-painting, in which he attained to a great celebrity. His passion for grace and beauty was extreme: he selected in all his pieces the most enchanting views of nature, and "in the opinion of many," says Lanzi, "there is not a greater name among landscape-painters." He is said to have acquired singular facility; and, like Rosa, could finish a landscape and decorate it with figures in a day. He painted all sorts of landscapes, and in everything he did, he displays elegance and erudition. Nicolas Poussin occasionally embellished Gaspar's pictures with figures representative of some portion of history or of fable. Gaspar has left behind him a few masterly etchings, consisting of four circular landscapes and a set of four landscapes lengthways. He died at Rome in 1675. A considerable number of pieces from this excellent artist's pencil are to be seen in the National Gallery, London.