biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1596–1656)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Leyden, W Netherlands. He moved to The Hague c.1632, and became a pioneer of realistic ‘tonal’ landscape, emphasizing the movement of light and shadow across wide plains and rivers under huge cloudy skies. Church towers, castles, and windmills punctuate his small, carefully painted scenes, based on pen-and-ink drawings made while travelling. |
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