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Born #onthisday1633 Jan de Baen Dutch #portrait #painter during the Dutch Golden Age Hugely popular he painted the most distinguished people of his time Worked in Charles II’s exiled court & at The Hague from 1660 Also painted #cityscapes #history paintings & #genrepaintings
Born #onthisday1808 Carl Spitzweg German #Romanticist #painter Viewed as 1of the most important Biedermeier era artists Later #paintings & drawings are often humorous #genrepaintings with many of his works depicting sharply characterized eccentrics like The Hypochondriac (1865)