LOGGAN, DAVID, an engraver of considerable reputation, was born at Dantzig in 1635. He received the first lessons of his art from Simon Passe in Denmark, and subsequently, on paying a visit to Holland, he further perfected himself in the study under the guidance of Hondius. He came to England in the time of the Commonwealth, and engaged in engraving portraits and landscape pieces. The first work of Loggan, however, which attracted general notice, and gained for its author very considerable reputation, was his views of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Having married into a good family near Oxford in 1672, he took up his residence there, and shortly afterwards published a large folio volume of plates: Habitus Academiarum Oxoniæ, a Doctore ad Serventem, by David Loggan, Geidanensis, Universitatis Oxoniæ Chalographus. His engravings are remarkable for the neatness and accuracy of their execution, but this quality sometimes degenerates into stiffness and formality.