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  2. Procuring (prostitution) - Wikipedia

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    Procuring, pimping, or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or other sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. [1] A procurer, colloquially called a pimp (if male) or a madam (if female, though the term "pimp" has often been used for female procurers as well) or a brothel keeper, is an agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings.

  3. Utrecht Caravaggism - Wikipedia

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    The Procuress by van Honthorst, 1625. Utrecht Caravaggism (Dutch: Utrechtse caravaggisten) refers to the work of a group of artists who were from, or had studied in, the Dutch city of Utrecht, and during their stay in Rome during the early seventeenth century had become distinctly influenced by the art of Caravaggio. [1]

  4. The Matchmaker (Honthorst) - Wikipedia

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    The Matchmaker or The Procuress is an oil on panel painting by Dutch artist Gerard van Honthorst, created in 1625, now in the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, for which it was bought in 1951 by the Vereniging Rembrandt.

  5. The Procuress (Dirck van Baburen) - Wikipedia

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    The Procuress is the name given to a number of similar paintings by the Dutch Golden Age painter Dirck van Baburen. The painting is in the Caravaggiesque style of the Utrecht school . Description

  6. The Procuress - Wikipedia

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    The Procuress may refer to: The Procuress; The Procuress (Dirck van Baburen) The Procuress This page was last edited on 27 September 2022 ...

  7. Elizabeth Needham - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Needham (right foreground) as portrayed in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress. Elizabeth Needham (died 3 May 1731), also known as Mother Needham, was an English procuress and brothel-keeper of 18th-century London, who has been identified as the bawd greeting Moll Hackabout in the first plate of William Hogarth's series of satirical etchings, A Harlot's Progress.

  8. Red Light Lizzie - Wikipedia

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    Red Light Lizzie (fl. 1860 –1875) was the pseudonym of an American madam, procuress and underworld figure in New York City during the mid-to late 19th century. [1] [2]During the 1860s and 1870s, she controlled much of New York City's prostitution, along with Jane the Grabber.

  9. Dirck van Baburen - Wikipedia

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    It depicts a man offering a coin for the services of a lute-playing prostitute while an old woman, the lady's procuress, inspects his money. This painting (or a copy) was owned by Johannes Vermeer 's mother-in-law and appears in two of that artist's works, The Concert (stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum , Boston) and Woman Seated ...