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Delft Delft
Delft , city (1994 pop. 91,941), South Holland prov., W Netherlands. It has varied industries and is noted for its ceramics (china, tiles, and pottery) known as delftware. Founded in the 11th cent. and chartered in 1246, Delft was an important commercial center until superseded (17th cent.) by ... Read more
Carel Fabritius Carel Fabritius
Carel Fabritius , 1622-54, Dutch painter; pupil and outstanding follower of Rembrandt. His early death in the explosion of a powder magazine at Delft cut short a career of great promise. Among his few remarkable works are Portrait of a Man (Rotterdam); The Goldfinch (The Hague); and View of... Read more
Pieter de Hooch Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch , b. c.1629, d. after 1677, Dutch genre painter. He worked in Delft, Leiden, and Amsterdam, painting intimate interiors that may have been influenced by those of Vermeer. Usually he preferred to paint rooms opening into other rooms or to the outdoors, intriguing the imagination with... Read more
Balthasar van der Ast Balthasar van der Ast
Ast, Balthasar van der (b Middelburg, c.1594; bur. Delft, 19 Dec. 1657). Dutch still-life painter, the brother-in-law of Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, with whom he trained in Middelburg. He worked in Utrecht (where he influenced the early work of Jan Davidsz. De Heem) before settling in Delft... Read more
Michiel Janszen van Mierevelt Michiel Janszen van Mierevelt
Michiel Janszen van Mierevelt , 1567-1641, Dutch portrait painter. He was court painter to the house of Orange, working chiefly in Delft and at The Hague. Mierevelt had many pupils and assistants, whose numerous, and usually inferior, works bear his name. His thousands of portraits included those of... Read more
Jan Vermeer Jan Vermeer
Jan Vermeer , 1632-75, Dutch genre and landscape painter. He was born in Delft, where he spent his entire life. He was also known as Vermeer of Delft and as Jan or Johannes van der Meer. Carel Fabritius is presumed to have influenced him greatly. In 1653 he was admitted to the painters' guild, of... Read more
Mauritshuis Mauritshuis
Mauritshuis. The royal picture gallery in The Hague, opened to the public in 1820. The building, designed by Jacob van Campen in 1633 as a palace for Count Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen (Maurice of Nassau), is one of the masterpieces of Dutch architecture. It houses one of the world's... Read more
Adam Pynacker Adam Pynacker
Pynacker, Adam (or Adam Pijnacker) (b Schiedam, nr. Rotterdam, c.1620; bur. Amsterdam, 28 Mar. 1673). Dutch landscape painter, active in Schiedam and possibly in Delft before settling in Amsterdam in about 1661. According to Houbraken he spent three years in Italy (perhaps c.1645–8) and he... Read more
delftware delftware
delftware The earliest delftware was a faience, a heavy, brown earthenware with opaque white glaze and polychrome decoration, made in the late 16th cent. Some of the earliest imitations of Chinese and Japanese porcelain were made at Delft in the 17th cent. Delft was important as a pottery center... Read more
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van (b. Delft, Netherlands, 24 October 1632;b. Delft, 26 August 1723), natural sciences, microscopy. Leeuwenhoek was the son of Philips Thoniszoon, a basket-maker, and Margriet Jacobsdochter van den Berch. He took his surname ( Read more

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