Louis Paul Boon

Louis Paul Boon

male, deceased (1979)
Louis Paul Boon (15 March 1912 - 10 May 1979) was a Flemish journalist and novelist who is considered one of the major 20th century writers in the...
Early Netherlandish Painting

Early Netherlandish Painting

male
Early Netherlandish painting is a term art historians use to designate the work of a group of painters who were active primarily in the Low...
Pieter Brueghel The Elder

Pieter Brueghel The Elder

male, deceased (1569)
Pieter Brueghel the Elder or Bruegel was a Netherlandish Renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (Genre...
Quentin Matsys

Quentin Matsys

male, deceased (1530)
Quentin Matsys, his first name also recorded as Quinten or Kwinten and his last name as Massys, Metsys, or Matsijs (1466 - 1530), was a painter in...
Francis Vere

Francis Vere

male, deceased (1609)
Francis Vere (1560-1609), English soldier, was the son of Geoffrey Vere of Crepping Hall, Essex, and nephew of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford....
Frans Snyders

Frans Snyders

male, deceased (1657)
Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657), or Snijders, was a Flemish painter of animals and still life. Snyders was born and died at Antwerp. He is recorded as...
Tielman Susato

Tielman Susato

male, deceased (1562)
Tielman Susato (also Tylman was a Renaissance Flemish composer, instrumentalist and publisher of music in Antwerp. While his place of birth is...
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

male, deceased (1689)
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605 - July 1689), French traveller and pioneer of trade with India, was born in 1605 at Paris, where his father Gabriel...
Edward Dyer

Edward Dyer

male, deceased (1607)
Sir Edward Dyer was an English courtier and poet. The son of Sir Thomas Dyer, Kt., he was born at Sharpham Park, Somerset. He was educated,...
Barnabe Rich

Barnabe Rich

male, deceased (1617)
Barnabe Rich (also Barnaby Riche) (c. 1540 - November 10, 1617), English author and soldier, was a distant relative of Lord Chancellor Rich. He...