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Adriaen van Ostade
Adriaen van Ostade (1610–1685) was a Dutch painter and etcher of Haarlem who specialized in scenes of peasant life, producing more than eight hundred paintings.
Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter from Dordrecht, famed for river and pastoral scenes in warm, golden evening light; most of his best work is in England.
Carel Fabritius
Carel Fabritius (1622–1654) was a Dutch painter and Rembrandt pupil who worked in Delft, best known for The Goldfinch; he died in the 1654 Delft gunpowder explosion.
Gabriel Metsu
Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, born in Leiden and active in Amsterdam, best known for refined domestic genre scenes such as The Sick Child.
Gerard ter Borch
Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681) was a Dutch painter of portraits and genre scenes, based in Deventer, known for small interior pictures of elegant figures and his 1648 Treaty of Münster group portrait.
Hendrick ter Brugghen
Hendrick ter Brugghen, also spelled Terbrugghen (1588–1629), was a Dutch painter and the leading Utrecht Caravaggist, who returned from Rome in 1614 and developed a personal style of softer light and paler, more varied color.
Jan Davidsz. de Heem
Jan Davidsz. de Heem, born Johannes van Antwerpen (1606–1684), was a Dutch still-life painter famed for sumptuous flower and banquet pieces painted in Leiden and Antwerp.
Jan Lievens
Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and printmaker who worked closely with Rembrandt in Leiden and later painted for courts in London and Antwerp.
Jan Steen
Jan Havicksz Steen (1626–1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Leiden best known for humorous genre scenes of chaotic households; "a Jan Steen household" remains a Dutch saying for a disorderly home.
Jan van Goyen
Jan van Goyen (Jan Josephsz. van Goyen) was a Dutch painter of landscapes and marine views, a pioneer of naturalistic, tonal landscape painting in the 1600s.
Judith Leyster
Judith Leyster (1609–1660) was a Dutch painter of lively genre scenes. She joined the Haarlem Guild of St Luke in 1633 and was rediscovered in 1893.
Meindert Hobbema
Meindert Hobbema, baptized Meyndert Lubbertsz (1638–1709), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter known for wooded scenes and watermills, and for his late masterpiece The Avenue at Middelharnis.
Philips Wouwerman
Philips Wouwerman was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Haarlem, active from 1639 to 1668 and best known for small paintings of horses in battle scenes.
Pieter Aertsen
Pieter Aertsen, called Lange Pier for his height, was a Dutch painter from Amsterdam (c. 1508–1575) who pioneered monumental market and kitchen scenes, notable for his 1551 Meat Stall.
Pieter Claesz
Pieter Claesz (1596/97–1660) was a Dutch Golden Age still-life painter who spent his career in Haarlem and became its leading painter of breakfast and vanitas still lifes.
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter born in Rotterdam in 1629, known for sunlit domestic interiors and view-through-doorway compositions painted in Delft.
Rachel Ruysch
Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) was a Dutch painter of flower still lifes who worked in Amsterdam and served as court painter in Düsseldorf, with patrons paying over 1,000 guilders.
Willem Claesz. Heda
Willem Claesz. Heda (1594–1680) was a Dutch still-life painter who spent his career in Haarlem and was one of the originators of the tonal, monochrome breakfast and banquet still life.
Willem van de Velde the Younger
Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633–1707) was a Dutch Golden Age marine painter who moved to England in 1672 under the patronage of Charles II.