Joanna Koerten
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Joanna Koerten, was a Dutch artist who excelled in painting, drawing, embroidery, glass etching, and wax modeling. She achieved fame as a silhouette cutter, the art of creating outline images from pie
Portrait of Joanna Koerten by Jacobus Houbraken, after a painting by David van der Plaas
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Gerard de Lairesse
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Gerard or Gérard Lairesse was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa and Fre
Joanna Koerten
…kept by her surviving husband shows the names of many notable artist and poet visitors, both during her lifetime and beyond. Among them are artists Gerard de Lairesse, Melchior Hondecoeter and Nicholas Verkolje; calligraphers Jacob Gadelle, and Mary Strick; and poets David van Hoogstraten, John Brandt, Gesine Brit…
Rembrandt's portrait of Gerard de Lairesse at age 25, showing his saddle nose caused by congenital syphilis. Oil on canvas, c. 1665–67. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Apollo and Aurora, 1671, ceiling painting for Herengracht, n° 539, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gerard de Lairesse, Allegory of sciences, Rijksmuseum
Gerard de Lairesse: Allegory of the Five Senses, 1668, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum