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  2. Jan Luyken - Wikipedia

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    Jan Luiken made the engravings for the popular "sailor's bible" called "Lusthof des Gemoeds", by Jan Philipsz Schabaalje, 1714 Jan Luyken's print of the peat boat used as a ruse by the Dutch to gain possession of Breda from the Spanish in 1590. He was born and died in Amsterdam, where he learned engraving from his father Kaspar Luyken. [1]

  3. List of Dutch painters - Wikipedia

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    For artists born and active in the Southern Netherlands, see the List of Flemish painters. The artists are sorted by century and then alphabetically by last name. In general, artists are included that are mentioned at the ArtCyclopedia [1] website, in the Grove Dictionary of Art, [2] and/or whose paintings regularly sell for over $20,000 at ...

  4. Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") - Wikipedia

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    Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") is an emblem book of 100 engravings by Jan Luyken and his son Caspar published in 1694, illustrating various trades in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. The majority of the trades shown are from the textile industry (12), followed by marine pursuits (8).

  5. The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters - Wikipedia

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    The first volume appeared in 1718, and was followed by the second volume in 1719, the year Houbraken died. The third and last volume was published posthumously by Houbraken's wife and children in 1721. This work is considered to be a very important source of information on 17th-century artists of the Netherlands.

  6. Caspar Luyken - Wikipedia

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    Caspar Luyken (18 December 1672 – 4 October 1708) was a Dutch illustrator and engraver. He was the son of Jan Luyken with whom he collaborated extensively. [1]Luyken worked mostly in Amsterdam, and produced Het Menselyk Bedryf ("The Book of Trades") with his father in 1694.

  7. Thieleman J. van Braght - Wikipedia

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    Thieleman Janszoon Braght; Jan Luiken (1850). E. Underhill (ed.). A Martyrology of the Churches of Christ, Commonly Called Baptists, During the Era of the Reformation. Vol. I. Thieleman Janszoon Braght (1853). E. Underhill (ed.). A Martyrology of the Churches of Christ, Commonly Called Baptists, During the Era of the Reformation. Vol. II.

  8. Still Life with Books - Wikipedia

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    The idea of this style of painting was to show possessions and wealth are fleeting and mean nothing when one is faced with death. [6] The vanitas genre involves subject matter which includes symbols depicting mortality or the perishable nature of material things. The style can be seen in 17th-century Dutch still life paintings. [7]

  9. List of Belgian painters - Wikipedia

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    Jan Cockx (born in Antwerp, 1891 – died in Antwerp, 1976) – painter and ceramicist; Jean Baptiste Leopold Colin (1881–1961) – portraits, nudes, and still lifes; Omer Coppens (born in Dunkirk, 1864 – died in Ixelles, 1926) – Impressionist painter, ceramic artist