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    Jan van Balen (21 July 1611 in Antwerp – 14 March 1654) was a Flemish painter known for his Baroque paintings of history and allegorical subjects. He...
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    Hendrick van Balen or Hendrick van Balen I (c. 1573–1575 in Antwerp – 17 July 1632 in Antwerp) was a Flemish Baroque painter and stained glass designer...
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    painted a portrait of Jan Brueghel and his family (Courtauld Institute, London). In 1613 he accompanied Rubens and Hendrick van Balen the Elder on a diplomatic...
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    such as Hendrick van Balen the Elder and Joos de Momper. During his career, he collaborated with many other artists such as Jan van Balen - the son of his...
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  • Hendrick van Balen and Margriet Briers (or 'de Brier'). The family included eleven children of whom three became painters: Jan van Balen, Gaspard van Balen and...
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    Elder (1575-1632) and sister of the painters Hendrick the Younger and Jan van Balen. The godfather at his wife's baptism had been no one less than Peter...
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    Hendrick van Balen, died 1632: Marr. Margreta Briers, and Son Jan van Balen. Jan van Balen, died 1654. Marr. Joanne van Weerden. Justus van Egmont, painter...
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    7 – Ernest Gottlieb, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau (b. 1620) March 14 – Jan van Balen, Flemish painter (b. 1611) March 15 – Jean Guiton, French Huguenot ship...
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    European Athletics Championships its members Fanny Blankers-Koen and Nelly van Balen-Blanken won three medals in the sprint and high jump. Blankers continued...
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  • Groenten uit Balen ("Vegetables from Balen") is a Flemish theatre play written by Walter van den Broeck in 1972. Later, he converted the play into a novel...
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  • Groenten uit Balen (lit. 'Vegetables from Balen') is a 2011 Belgian drama film adaption of the book eponymous play by Walter van den Broeck. The overall...
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  • Petronella "Nelly"/"Nel" Blaauboer-van Balen Blanken, with surname also spelled as Blauwboer and Blauwbos (18 November 1917 – 29 October 2008) was a Dutch...
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    Hendrick van Balen the Elder, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert and possibly Jan Boeckhorst. An example of a collaborative garland painting made by Jan van Kessel...
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    Schelde in Antwerp, by Sebastian Vrancx (5) The Rape of Europa, by Hendrick van Balen (2 & 3) The Bean Eaters, by Vincenzo Campi (3) Death of Cleopatra, by...
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    Aschaffenburg), Hendrick van Balen and Hans Jordaens III who painted the staffage in his landscapes. Name variations: Jan Thielens, H. Thilen, Jan Tielens, Johannes...
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    Cecilia Renata of Austria, queen consort of Poland (d. 1644) July 21 – Jan van Balen, Flemish painter (d. 1654) July 23 – Henry Hungerford, English politician...
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    he started his formal training as a painter with Hendrick van Balen the Elder. Van Balen was a successful painter of small cabinet paintings who had...
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    Quellinus II, Nicolas de Largilliere, Jan van Balen, Frans Francken the Younger, Cornelis Schut and Cornelis van Poelenburch. The cartouches in the garlands...
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    page 113 Nicolaes Knupfer, page 115 Jan van Bijlert, page 117 Jan van Balen, page 119 Roelant Savery, page 125 Henry van der Borcht the elder, page 127 Jacob...
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  • the governors of Dordrecht, published by Mathias Balen in his Beschryving van Dordrecht (1677). Jan Drapentier seems to have come to England and worked...
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    special type of still life developed in Antwerp by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick van Balen at the request of the Italian cardinal Federico Borromeo...
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    a cartouche painted by Cornelis Schut but also angels attributed to Jan van Balen. Daniel Seghers' art was widely admired during his lifetime, generating...
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    7 – Ernest Gottlieb, Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau (b. 1620) March 14 – Jan van Balen, Flemish painter (b. 1611) March 15 – Jean Guiton, French Huguenot ship...
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    Cecilia Renata of Austria, queen consort of Poland (d. 1644) July 21 – Jan van Balen, Flemish painter (d. 1654) July 23 – Henry Hungerford, English politician...
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    business in Turnhout, as were non-ferrous metallurgy in Balen-Nete, dynamite factories in Arendonk and Balen, tobacco and cigar factories in Arendonk, and the...
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    Tooneel der Doopsgezinden, by Tieleman Jansz van Bracht. Houbraken quoted both Mathias Balen's Beschryvinge van Dordrecht and the Martyrs Mirror, pag. 590...
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    Jan Brueghel the Elder, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Hendrick van Balen, Paul Bril and Adam Elsheimer. His landscapes are also influenced by Gillis van Coninxloo...
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    developed in Antwerp by artists including his father Jan Brueghel the Elder, his guardian Hendrick van Balen, Frans Francken the Younger, Peter Paul Rubens...
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    Zot van A. (2010, film) Witse (2011, TV-gastrol) as Gunther Selleslags' Vermist - De Serie III+IV (2011-2012, TV) as Eric Coppens Groenten uit Balen (2011...
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    of still life developed in Antwerp by artists such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, Hendrick van Balen, Andries Daniels, Frans Francken the Younger, Peter Paul...
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