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Born March 28, 1660 • Dordrecht • Netherlands
Died October 14, 1719 (aged 59) • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Notable Family Members son Jacobus Houbraken
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Giorgio Vasari
Italian artist and author
Theo van Doesburg: Counter-Composition V
Theo van Doesburg
Dutch artist
Sidney Colvin
English scholar
Philostratus the Younger
Greek author
John Ruskin
John Ruskin
English writer and artist
Stendhal, oil painting by Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy; in the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, France.
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Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
American artist
Winckelmann, Johann
Johann Winckelmann
German art historian
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
Sérusier, Paul: The Flowered Gate
Paul Sérusier
French painter
Harold Rosenberg
American art critic
Ernest F. Fenollosa
American orientalist and art critic
Enwezor, Okwui
Okwui Enwezor
Nigerian-born art curator
Evelyn, oil painting by Robert Walker, 1648
John Evelyn
English author
Lawrence Alloway
American curator and art critic
Dong Qichang
Chinese artist
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark
British art historian
Roger Fry
British art critic and painter