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Van Corlaer, Arent
(Encyclopedia)Van Corlaer, Arent: see Van Curler, Arent. ...Van Ostade, Adriaen
(Encyclopedia)Van Ostade, Adriaen: see Ostade, Adriaen van. ...Zeeland, Paul van
(Encyclopedia)Zeeland, Paul van: see Van Zeeland, Paul. ...Schoreel, Jan van
(Encyclopedia)Schoreel, Jan van: see Scorel, Jan van. ...Ruysdael, Jacob van
(Encyclopedia)Ruysdael, Jacob van: see Ruisdael, Jacob van. ...Coninxloo, Gillis van
(Encyclopedia)Coninxloo or Koninksloo, Gillis van both: gĭlˈĭs vän kōˈnĭngkslō [key], 1544–1607, Flemish landscape painter. His Judgment of Midas (Dresden), Latona (Hermitage, St. Petersburg), and above a...Helmont, Jan Baptista van
(Encyclopedia)Helmont, Jan Baptista van yän bäptĭsˈtä vän hĕlˈmônt [key], 1577–1644, Flemish physician, chemist, and physicist. He attributed physiological changes to chemical causes, but his conclusions...Cleef, Joos van
(Encyclopedia)Cleef or Cleve, Joos van yōs vän klāf, klāˈvə [key], c.1485–1540, Flemish portrait painter. Much of his life was spent in Antwerp. He is often identified with the Master of the Death of the Vi...Dongen, Kees van
(Encyclopedia)Dongen, Kees van kās 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 eight years later. A precoc...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 1915. For 60 yea...Browse by Subject
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