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Painters and Paintings
LAAR, JAN HENDRIK VAN DE, born Two Allegories on Music representing Rot- at Rotter- dam, Jan. 1, 1807, died there, May 15, 1874. History and genre painter, pupil of Cornelis Bakker (born in 1771), and in Antwerp of Wappers; returned in 1830 and lived terdam in 1829 and the Netherlands in 1854 (1854); Benvenuto Cellini and Cosmo de' Medici (1859); Divorce Case, Rotterdam Mu- seum. Immerzeel, ii. 146; Kramm, iii. 929. - LAAR (Laer), PIETER VAN, called Bam- boccio (cripple), born at Haarlem about 1600, died there after 1658. Dutch school; genre painter, pupil of Jan van Campen (1590 ?— 1650); went with his brother Roe- land about 1623 first at The Hague, afterwards at Rotter- dam, whence he again visited Antwerp, spending there two years. Member of Am- sterdam Academy in 1852, and professor. Works: Heroic Death of Herman de Ruyter (1840); Daughter craving her Father's Par- through France to Italy, and remained for don (1842), New Pinakothek, Munich; Pil- sixteen years in Rome, living in friendly in- grim returning from Holy Land; Fugitives tercourse with Poussin, Claude Lorrain, and Hiding; Alice (after Walter Scott); A Bap- Sandrart, but going his own way in art, tism in 1600; Salvator Rosa drawing Girl's which differed widely from that of those Portrait; Wedding in 17th Century; Benve- masters. He avoided the ideal, and treated, nuto Cellini in his Workshop; Jacob van with much humour and truthfulness, realis- Campen and the Fortune-Teller; Rem- tic subjects, such as scenes from Italian brandt's Journey; Adriaan van Ostade draw- popular life, markets, jugglers, gypsies, etc.; ing from Nature; Erasmus in his Study; also landscapes, finding many imitators, no- Retreat of the Waldenses; Protestant Ser- tably Cerquozzi and Jan Miel, so that the vice in 17th Century; Emigrants Ready to "bambocciate "formed a special branch in Start; Patriotic Women at Delft in 1573; art. His nickname was given him partly on
Allegory on Engraving (1852); Resurrection; account of his deformity, partly for his
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