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    Portrait of a Young Merchant is an oil on oak painting completed in 1541 by German painter, Hans Holbein the Younger, now in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches...
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    Hans Holbein the Elder (category Year of birth uncertain)
    Elder Basilica of St. Paul Portrait of a Member of the Weiss Family of Augsburg Portrait of a woman Portrait of a Woman, c. 1515 Portrait of a man, (1491)...
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    Ambrosius Holbein (category Year of birth uncertain)
    Basel) Portrait of a Boy with Brown Hair (1517; Basel, Kunstmuseum, Basel) Portrait of Jörg Schweiger (1518; Kunstmuseum, Basel) Portrait of a Young Man...
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    of this portrait was identified as a Danzig merchant, Hans Schwarzwaldt (1513-1575), based on a very strong resemblance to another portrait made by Holbein...
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    Jane Pemberton Small (category Portraits by Hans Holbein the Younger)
    Pemberton married Nicholas Small, a London cloth merchant, probably in about 1540. It is around this time that the Holbein portrait was commissioned. Nicholas...
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    albums as a solo artist. Natalie Merchant was born October 26, 1963, in Jamestown, New York, the third of four children of Anthony and Anne Merchant. Her paternal...
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    died young, and all financial and material burdens fell on his mother's shoulders. The Kustodiev family rented a small wing in a rich merchant's house...
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    as a young artist, painting murals and religious works and drawing designs for stained glass and printed books. He produced the occasional portrait, and...
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    in the National Gallery, London. It is a full-length double portrait, believed to depict the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife...
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    The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults...
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  • Merchant of Venice is a 2004 romantic drama film based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It is the first full-length sound film in English of Shakespeare's...
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    is a female protagonist in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. In creating her character, Shakespeare drew from the historical figure of Porcia...
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    Georg Giese (category Polish merchants)
    1562) was a Hanseatic merchant, who managed his family's office at London's Steelyard for at least 12 years and is noted for having had his portrait painted...
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    son of Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex. In 1903 Sir Richard Holmes identified a portrait of a young man, one of a number...
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  • of their marriage, Thomas Cromwell had been a successful merchant and lawyer and there is evidence to suggest that he had taken over the running of Henry...
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    trader, merchant and land speculator known for purchasing nearly four million acres from the state of New York after the American Revolutionary War. A Loyalist...
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    A self-portrait is a portrait of an artist made by themselves. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, the practice of self-portraiture...
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    Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the...
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    is a portrait of Marie-Clotilde-Inès Moitessier (née de Foucauld) begun in 1844 and completed in 1856 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. The portrait, which...
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  • Thumbnail for Antonio (The Merchant of Venice)
    Antonio is one of the central characters in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. He is portrayed as a wealthy and respected merchant residing...
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    Self-portrait (or Self-portrait at 26) is the second of Albrecht Dürer's three painted self-portraits and was executed in oil on wood panel in 1498, after...
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    The Portrait of Mehmet II is a painting by the Venetian artist Gentile Bellini, depicting the Ottoman sultan, Mehmet the Conqueror, now in the National...
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    John Young (September 1, 1773 – October 6, 1837) was a Scottish-born merchant, author, agronomist, and agricultural reformer in Nova Scotia. He represented...
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  • Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (simplified Chinese: 许三观卖血记; traditional Chinese: 許三觀賣血記; pinyin: Xǔ Sānguān Mài Xuě Jì) is a 1995 novel by Chinese writer...
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    Schwarzwald family (category History of Gdańsk)
    Schwarzwald (or von Schwarzwald) family was a wealthy, patrician, merchant family living in the Hanseatic city of Danzig from the 15th to the 18th century...
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    Oswald had a cadre of young merchants whom he trained. Among these was John Levett, brother of planter Francis, who was in Oswald's employ as a young man. Levett...
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    Carel Fabritius (category Pupils of Rembrandt)
    August 2014. A Girl with a Broom, National Gallery of Art. Retrieved on 21 August 2014. Portrait of Abraham de Potter, Amsterdam Silk Merchant, Carel Fabritius...
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    Mona Lisa (category Portraits of women)
    Joconde [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance...
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  • of the same name by Matt Haig, and starring Henry Lawfull, Toby Jones, Sally Hawkins, Kristen Wiig, Michiel Huisman, Zoe Colletti, Stephen Merchant,...
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    Portrait of a Noble Young Lady (Portret van een onbekende vrouw) is considered by many art historians, such as Paul Huvenne, former Director of the Royal...
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