CAMPHUYSEN, DIRK RAFELSZ Dutch painter, poet, and theologian, was the son of a surgeon at Gor cum. As he manifested great artistic talent, his brother, in whose charge he was left on the death of his parents, placed him under the painter Govaerts. But at that time there was intense inter est in theology, and Camphuysen, sharing in the prevailing enthu siasm, deserted the pursuit of art to become, first, a private tutor and afterwards minister of Vleuten near Utrecht . He embraced the doctrines of Arminius and was deprived of this post and driven into exile (1619). He has left a translation of the Psalms and a number of short pieces, remarkable for their freshness and depth of poetic feeling; but his fame chiefly rests on his pictures, which, like his poems, are mostly small, but of great beauty; the colouring, though thin, is pure; the composi tion and pencilling are exquisite, and the perspective above criticism. The best of his works are his sunset and moonlight scenes, and his views of the Rhine and other rivers. The close of his life was spent at Dokkum. His nephew Raphael (b. 1598) is by some considered to have been the author of several of the works ascribed to his uncle; and his son Govaert (1624-74), a follower or imitator of Paul Potter, is similarly credited.