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Jonson, Cornelis van Ceulen

(Encyclopedia)Jonson, Cornelis van Ceulen: see Janssens, Cornelis van Ceulen. ...

Janssen, Cornelis van Ceulen

(Encyclopedia)Janssen, Cornelis van Ceulen: see Janssens, Cornelis van Ceulen. ...

(Encyclopedia)Janssens, Janssen, or Jonson, Cornelis van Ceulen kôrnāˈlĭs vän köˈlən yänˈsəns, –sən, –sôn [key], 1593–c.1662, Dutch portrait painter who worked in England. He was the fashionable ...

Noot, Jan van der

(Encyclopedia)Noot, Jan van der yän vän dĕr nōt [key], b. 1539 or 1540, d. 1595?, Flemish poet. He wrote sonnets, odes, and other pieces in imitation of Petrarch and especially of Ronsard. ...

Neer, Aert van der

(Encyclopedia)Neer, Aert van der ärt vän dĕr nār [key], c.1603–77, Dutch landscape painter. Working mostly in Amsterdam, he excelled in painting unusual light effects, such as moonlight, sunsets, conflagratio...

Meer, Jan van der

(Encyclopedia)Meer, Jan or Johannes van der: see Vermeer, Jan. ...

Keppel, Arnold Joost van

(Encyclopedia)Keppel, Arnold Joost van: see Albemarle, Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st earl of. ...

Mierevelt, Michiel Janszen van

(Encyclopedia)Mierevelt, Miereveld, or Miereveldt, Michiel Janszen van all: mēkhēlˈ yänˈsən vän mēˈrəvĕlt [key], 1567–1641, Dutch portrait painter. He was court painter to the house of Orange, working ...