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Jan Frans van Douven
Portrait of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Electress Palatine (1667-1743)

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Jan Frans van Douven Portrait of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Electress Palatine (1667-1743)
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Jan Frans van Douven Portrait of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Electress Palatine (1667-1743)


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Jan Frans van Douven

Jan Frans van Douven, or Johan Francois Douven, (Roermond, 2 March 1656 - Desseldorf, 1727) was a Southern Netherlandish portrait painter belonging to the Dutch Leyden School. Born in Roermond, he spent most of his life as Court painter in Desseldorf, now in Germany, where he created most of his worksDate circa 1695(1695) Medium oil   Related Paintings of Jan Frans van Douven :. | Italian Landscape | Double portrait of Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz and Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici | Portrait of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (1667-1743) | Portrait of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (1658-1716) | Portrait of Grand Duke Cosimo III of Tuscany |
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Sylvester Shchedrin
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Belgian Painter, 1840-1888 Belgian painter, was born at Antwerp. He was trained by his father, a genre painter, and his uncle, Baron Henri Leys, and devoted himself to scenes of everyday Antwerp life. The first pictures he exhibited, The Laundry (Van Cutsem collection, Brussels), and The Coppersmith's Workshop (Vleeshouwer collection, Antwerp), were shown. at the Antwerp exhibition in 1861. He received the gold medal at Brussels in 1872 for The Geographer and The Lesson (both in the Brussels gallery); the gold medal at Vienna in 1873 for The Painter's Studio and Grandmother's Birthday ; and the medal of honor at the Exposition Universelle at Amsterdam for The Pilot House. Among his more notable works are A Shoemaker (1862), A Tailor's Workroom (1863), A Gardener (1864, Antwerp gallery), Interior of a Church (1866), Interior, Flanders (1867), Woman Spinning (1869), Man Reading (1871), Theruedu Serment, Antwerp (1875), A Copperplate Printer, The Sailor's Return, The Man at the Window (Couteaux collection, Brussels), The Horn-blower (Couteaux collection), Man Retouching a Picture (Couteaux collection), The Potters (Marlier collection, Brussels), Staircase in the Hydraulic House at Antwerp (Marlier collection), and The Brewer's House at Antwerp (Marlier collection). The last, better known as A Man Sitting, is generally regarded as his masterpiece. As a lithographer and etcher, his work resembles that of Henri Leys.






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