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Helmont, Jan Baptista van

(Encyclopedia) Helmont, Jan Baptista vanHelmont, Jan Baptista vanyän bäptĭsˈtä vän hĕlˈmônt [key], 1577–1644, Flemish physician, chemist, and physicist. He attributed physiological changes to…

Cleef, Joos van

(Encyclopedia) Cleef or Cleve, Joos vanCleef or Cleve, Joos vanyōs vän klāf, klāˈvə [key], c.1485–1540, Flemish portrait painter. Much of his life was spent in Antwerp. He is often identified with…

Dongen, Kees van

(Encyclopedia) Dongen, Kees vanDongen, Kees vankās vän dôngˈən [key], 1877–1968, Dutch painter who worked in Paris. After moving to Paris in 1897, he met Matisse and became an exponent of fauvism…

Coninxloo, Gillis van

(Encyclopedia) Coninxloo or Koninksloo, Gillis vanConinxloo or Koninksloo, Gillis vanboth: gĭlˈĭs vän kōˈnĭngkslō [key], 1544–1607, Flemish landscape painter. His Judgment of Midas (Dresden), Latona…

Van Der Zee, James

(Encyclopedia) Van Der Zee, James, 1886–1983, American photographer, b. Lenox, Mass. The son of Ulysses S. Grant's maid and butler, Van Der Zee opened his first studio in Harlem, New York City, in…