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at his court, where he received high praise. The ensuing jealousy made him decide to return to his native land, where he learned mathematics from an officer named Percival. In 1639, 1642, and 1643 he is registered as a
41:. He made designs of the fine remains of antiquity in the environs of Rome, and, on his return to Holland, painted some pictures composed from those subjects, which were highly esteemed. Houbraken wrote that 45:, in a journey he made through Holland, visited this artist (in 1627), and on seeing his works, pronounced him the ablest painter of his country in the subjects he represented. He served king 209: 238: 202: 103: 243: 62: 248: 195: 65:, whom he accompanied in some of his military campaigns. He was killed by a fall from his horse near Winoxbergen in 144: 258: 253: 37:
He went to Italy when he was very young, and applied himself particularly to the study of architecture and
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De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen
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Dutch Golden Age painter
Gouda
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Peter Paul Rubens
Sigismund III Vasa
military architecture
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria
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Jakop Reugers Blok biography
Arnold Houbraken
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