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    Nicola or Nicolino or Niccolino van Houbraken, also known as Nicolino Vanderbrach da Messina and Nicola Messinese (1660 – 1723) was an Italian painter...
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    Joannes, Jan or Giovanni van Houbraken, van Houbracken or Houbraken (c. 1600 – ) was a Flemish painter and art dealer. He painted religious compositions...
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    Jean-François de Le Motte, 1680-1700 Portrait of François Rivière by Nicola van Houbraken, c. 1700 Trompe l´oeil 1737 by Carl Hofverberg Trompe l'oeil of a...
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    Cerbara by Torquato Mazzoni Still-life of mushrooms and vegetables by Nicola van Houbraken St Clare by Nicolò Betti St Jerome in Desert by Palma il Giovane...
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    self-portrait was made after a painting by Nicolas de Largillière. It was part of a set of prints after designs by Lafage that van der Brugghen published that year...
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    of the glass painter Jan Roelofsz. van Diepenbeeck. The early Dutch biographer Arnold Houbraken alleged that van Diepenbeeck was in Italy to study glass...
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    way to obscurity after his death. He was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting (Grand Theatre of Dutch...
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    from the painters Jan van Goyen, Pieter de Grebber, Jan Baptist Weenix, Jan Wils and Claes Cornelisz. Moeyaert. According to Houbraken, Carel de Moor told...
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    Johannes van der Bent (c. 1650–1690), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken he was a student of Philips Wouwerman and Adriaen van de Velde...
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    written by the 18th-century painter Arnold Houbraken. It was published in three volumes as a sequel to Karel van Mander's own list of biographies known as...
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    According to Karel van Mander, he was a good painter, a disciple of Jan Nagel, and specialized in landscapes. According to Houbraken who mentions that...
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    confused with those of Kick. He influenced the painter Michel Nicolas Micheux. According to Houbraken, his teacher Kick had a garden outside the St Anthony's...
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  • Frans van Lint, lo Studio (Antwerp 1684-1763 Rome)". Christie's. Archived from the original on 6 December 2022. Retrieved 3 September 2023. Houbraken, Arnold...
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    be a minor member of the Utrecht Caravaggisti. According to Arnold Houbraken, van Bronckhorst apprenticed as an eleven-year-old with the glass engraver...
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    by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jan van Bijlert. Jan van Bijlert at...
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    born in The Hague. According to Houbraken, Johannes (Jan) Mijtens was trained by Anthony van Opstal and later by Nicolas van der Horst. Both of his uncles...
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    Godfried Schalcken (1643–1706), a Dutch genre and portrait painter Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719), a Dutch Golden Age painter and writer François Valentijn...
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    (Accredited Museum) Juno, Jupiter and Io by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout Jupiter, Juno and Io by Arnold Houbraken Jupiter and Io by Jacob Pynas at The Fitzwilliam...
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    Dutch Golden Age. We first get acquainted with Willem Kalf through Arnold Houbraken, in his Groot Schilderboek, who speaks very highly of him. In fact, Kalf...
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    would have likely written more. Houbraken's scant mention of Heda was reflected in the works of his followers, Johan van Gool and Jacob Campo Weyerman....
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    3000 guilders for 2 books of his Italian drawings, that according to Houbraken were resold in his lifetime for 4555 guilders. Though he rebuilt the old...
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  • son Nicolas. (in Dutch) Jan de Hoey Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy...
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    Nicolaes van Helt Stockade (1614–1669), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken, Joost van den Vondel made a poem about him. Stockade served...
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    bedriegelijcken handel, sotte, en ongeregelde manieren van het al te broos menschen leven. Joannes Paulus Robyns. Houbraken, Arnold (1718–1721). De groote schouburgh...
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  • Crellius, Arian philosopher and theologian (d. 1747) March 28 – Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter (d. 1719) April 6 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist...
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    pupils, including Jan van Mieris, Simon van der Does, and the brothers Teodor and Krzysztof Lubieniecki. According to Houbraken, Jan Hoogsaat was one...
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    (Teutsche Academie, 1675), Samuel van Hoogstraten (Inleyding tot de Hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst, 1677), Arnold Houbraken (Le Grand Théâtre des peintres...
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    sketches of many local artists that Arnold Houbraken later used for his Schouburg. The list of painters Houbraken included (Schrevelius listed many more)...
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    Baldinucci & Houbraken und einem Katalog und Anmerkungen. (Kön: Phaidon, 1960) [in German] Gollwitzer, Gerhard; Gollwitzer, Helmut: Rembrandt van Rijn. Hundertguldenblatt:...
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    Schouwburg, the early Dutch biographer Arnold Houbraken devoted a lengthy entry of 10 pages to Genoels. Houbraken described Genoels' foreign travels. In 1659...
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