John, a good landscape painter of the English school; though a native of Switzerland. His taste led him to solemn and dreary scenes, as landslides accompanied with showers of rain, &c., and he seldom omitted to introduce oak trees in his prospects; his landscapes are generally large; and he painted with nature, truth, and force. But the effect of his composition had been much greater if he had been less cold in his colouring: for the judicious eye is not pleased with the darkish tint that predominates in it. He died in London about 1681.