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Also Known As Isaac Olivier
Born 1556? • Rouen • France
Died October 2, 1617 • London • England
Movement / Style Jacobean age

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Oliver, Isaac
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Samuel Cooper's miniature portrait of Robert Blake; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
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Shahzia Sikander
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Persian painter
Jean Clouet
French painter
“Joshua and the Fall of Jericho” from Flavius Josephus' Antiquités judaïques, manuscript illuminated by Jean Fouquet, c. 1474; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms. Fr. 247)
Jean Fouquet
French painter
Sarah Goodridge: portrait of Gilbert Stuart
Sarah Goodridge
American painter
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Hendrik Goltzius
Dutch painter and printmaker
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Sulṭān Muḥammad
Persian painter
Portrait of Marguerite de Valois, chalk drawing by François Clouet, c. 1559; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. 30.1 × 21.1 cm.
François Clouet
French painter
Rezā ʿAbbāsī: The Lovers
Rezā ʿAbbāsī
Persian painter
Portrait of a Woman, watercolour on ivory by Anna Claypoole Peale, 1818; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Anna Claypoole Peale
American painter
Bichitr
Indian painter
Fassett, Cornelia Adele Strong
Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett
American painter

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