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Jan Van Gool
Johan, or Jan van Gool (1685–1763), was a Dutch painter and writer from The Hague, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. Life Jan van Gool was a pupil of Simon van der Does and Mattheus Terwesten.Jan van Gool
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He became a member of the in 1711. He was first regent, and then five years later became director, of the Hague Drawing School from 1720-1734. He spent most of his time in the Hague, but travelled to England twice and is recorded there in 1711. He specialized in Italianate landscapes. He is be ...
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The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, The Hague has been described as the country's de facto capital. The Hague is also the capital of the province of South Holland, and the city hosts both the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The Hague is the core municipality of the Greater The Hague urban area, which comprises the city itself and its suburban municipalities, containing over 800,000 people, making it the third-largest urban area in the Netherlands, again after the urban areas of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, with a population of approximately 2.6&n ...
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Jan Van Huysum
Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; “by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held to be the best painter of flowers.” Trained in decoration from a young age, he “gradually developed an execution of details of the utmost beauty and finish” creating “wonderful flower pieces whereon drops of water and crawling ants could be seen without a magnifying glass.” Life and work Jan was the son of the painter Justus van Huysum and his first wife Margrietje Schouten and the older brother of Jacob van Huysum and Justus van Huysum the Younger. Jan’s much younger half-brother Michiel van Huysum was also a flower painter. His grandfather Jan van Huysum the Elder is said to have been “expeditious in decorating doorways, screens and vases.” Van Huysum primarily lived and worked in the city of Amsterdam. Jan van ...
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Theodor Van Der Schuer
Theodor van der Schuer (1634–1707) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Van der Schuer was born and died in The Hague. According to Houbraken he travelled to Italy where he joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Vrientschap", or friendship.Theodoor van der Schuer Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by , courtesy of the He was one of the 48 signers of the founding charter of the



Cornelis Eversdyk
Willem Eversdijck (c.1620-1671) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He was the son of Cornelis Eversdijck and flourished at Goes about the year 1660. He is known for portraits and several of these were engraved by Houbraken. In 1633 he was a pupil of Cornelis de Vos in Antwerp.Willem Eversdijck in the RKD In 1652 he became a member of the Middelburg Guild of St. Luke, where he later died. A picture of Officers and Members of the Company of Archers, called " Edele Voetboog," at Goes, by him, is in the Rotterdam Museum. File:Allegorie op visserij.jpg, ''Allegory of fishing'', 1667–1671, by Willem Eversdijck, now in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Ste ... File:W. Eversdijck Cornelis Fransz. Eversdijck 1660-1666.jpg, ''Cornelis Fransz. Eversdijc ...
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Willem Eversdijck
Willem Eversdijck (c.1620-1671) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He was the son of Cornelis Eversdijck and flourished at Goes about the year 1660. He is known for portraits and several of these were engraved by Houbraken. In 1633 he was a pupil of Cornelis de Vos in Antwerp.Willem Eversdijck in the RKD In 1652 he became a member of the Middelburg Guild of St. Luke, where he later died. A picture of Officers and Members of the Company of Archers, called " Edele Voetboog," at Goes, by him, is in the Rotterdam Museum. File:Allegorie op visserij.jpg, ''Allegory of fishing'', 1667–1671, by Willem Eversdijck, now in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Ste ... File:W. Eversdijck Cornelis Fransz. Eversdijck 1660-1666.jpg, ''Cornelis Fransz. Eversdijc ...
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Jan Goedart
Johannes Goedaert (also spelled Goetaart, Goedhart, Goedaard or Jean Goedart in French) (19 March 1617 (baptized) – 15 January 1668 (buried)) was a Dutch Natural history, naturalist, Entomology, entomologist and Painting, painter, famous for his illustrations of the growth and metamorphosis of insects published in a three volume work as ''Metamorphosis Naturalis''. He was one of the earliest authors on entomology and first to write on the insects of the Netherlands and Europe, based on his own observations and experiments between 1635 and 1667. Goedaert was born in Middelburg, Zeeland, Middelburg where he was baptized on 19 March 1617. His mother was Judith Pottier and his father Pieter Goedaert died when he was eight years old. At the age of 18 he became a member of the Saint Lucas Guild for painters. Hardly anything is known about Goedaert’s training in draughtsmanship and painting. He was a contemporary o ...
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Abraham Lambertsz Van Den Tempel
Abraham van den Tempel (c.1622 – 8 October 1672) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography He probably learned painting from his father, also a painter, but who died when he was still quite young, in 1636. That is the same year that he moved to Amsterdam, where he stayed until 1647, whereupon he moved to Leiden. According to Houbraken he was the son of a Mennonite preacher in Leeuwarden who was a respected art teacher. His father was Lambert Jacobsz (or ''Jacobszoon''), who had taught Govert Flinck and Jacob Adriaensz Backer in their youth, both of whom were artists from Mennonite families. Abraham took the name Tempel because when he studied in Leiden, he lived in a house there with a relief of a Tempel in the keystone.Lely biography
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Jan Potheuck
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * ''Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * '' Journal of Advanced Nursing'' Personal name * Jan (name), male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name * Ran (surname), romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles * Ján, Slovak name Other uses * January, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Jan (cards), a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring ...
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Isaac Koedijck
Isaac Koedijck (1618, Amsterdam – 1668, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Johan van Gool, he saw two excellent cabinet pieces painted in the tradition of Gerard Dou in the collection of Willem Lormier in the Hague, of a farmer being bandaged on his knee in a "barber shop", and a boy stealing some almonds while looking over his shoulder to see if anyone notices.Koedyk mentioned, Part 1, page 56
in ''Nieuwe Schouburg'' (with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in the ''Institute of Dutch History''
According to the RKD he worked in Amsterdam (and Haarlem), Indonesia, and India.Isaac Koedijck
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Arnold Van Ravesteyn
Arnold van Ravesteyn (1605 in The Hague – 1690 in The Hague), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter. Biography According to the RKD he was a pupil of his father, the painter Anthonie van Ravesteyn, who became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1639 and who became a member and founder of the Confrerie Pictura in 1656.Arnold van Ravesteyn
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He was the teacher of the painters Samuel Cabeljauw, Johannes Dabbe, , Job Houttuyn, Otto Hoynck,
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Martinus Lengele
Martinus Lengele (1615–1668) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He is known for portraits in the Hague, and made a few schutterstuken there. He became a member of the Confrerie Pictura in The Hague from 1656 to 1665.Martinus Lengele
in In 1642 his sister Anna married the painter Jacob van Loo, who like him, worked in Paris in the 1660s. Lengele died in
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Cornelis Janssens Van Ceulen
Cornelius Johnson or Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen (; also Cornelius Jonson van Ceulen, Cornelis Jansz. van Ceulen and many other variants) (bapt. 14 October 1593 – bur. 5 August 1661) was an English painter of portraits of Netherlands, Dutch or Flanders, Flemish parentage. He was active in England, from at least 1618 to 1643, when he moved to Middelburg, Zeeland, Middelburg in the Netherlands to escape the English Civil War. Between 1646 and 1652 he lived in Amsterdam, before settling in Utrecht, where he died. Johnson painted many portraits of emerging new English gentry. His early portraits were panel paintings with "fictive" oval frames. His works can be found in major collections in the UK and overseas as well as in private collections in stately homes in Britain. He was an accomplished portrait painter, but lacked the flair of a master such as Van Dyck. His style varied considerably over his career, and he was able to assimilate new influences into his own style without ...
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