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Hooch, Pieter de

(Encyclopedia)Hooch or Hoogh, Pieter de both: pēˈtər də hōkh [key], b. c.1629, d. after 1677, Dutch genre painter. He worked in Delft, Leiden, and Amsterdam, painting intimate interiors that may have been infl...

Hooft, Pieter Corneliszoon

(Encyclopedia)Hooft, Pieter Corneliszoon pēˈtər kôrnāˈlĭsōn hōft [key], 1581–1647, Dutch historian, poet, and dramatist. His great work was a history of the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain, Neder...

Hoogh, Pieter de

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De Hooch, Pieter

(Encyclopedia)De Hooch or De Hoogh, Pieter: see Hooch, Pieter de. ...

De Kempener, Pieter

(Encyclopedia)De Kempener, Pieter: see Kempener, Pieter de. ...

Saenredam, Pieter Jansz

(Encyclopedia)Saenredam, Pieter Jansz pēˈtər yäns sänˈrədäm [key], 1597–1665, Dutch painter. Born in Assendelft, he spent most of his life in Haarlem. Saenredam was a painter of structures and was sometim...

Troelstra, Pieter Jelles

(Encyclopedia)Troelstra, Pieter Jelles pēˈtər yĕlˈĕs tro͞olˈsträ [key], 1860–1930, Dutch Socialist. In 1893 he founded what later became the Sociaaldemocrata, the official Socialist paper, and in 1900 he...

Botha, Pieter Willem

(Encyclopedia)Botha, Pieter Willem pēˈtər vĭlˈəm bōˈtə [key], 1916–2006, South African political leader. An Afrikaner and a member of the right-wing National party, he first entered parliament in 1948. B...

Boutens, Pieter Cornelis

(Encyclopedia)Boutens, Pieter Cornelis pēˈtər kôrnāˈlĭs bouˈtəns [key], 1870–1943, Dutch poet. His Verzen (1898) won him early praise. His impressionistic and mystical lyric verse was marked by rhythmic ...

Memling, Hans

(Encyclopedia)Memling or Memlinc, Hans häns mĕmˈlĭng, –lĭngk [key], c.1430–1494, Flemish religious and portrait painter, b. Germany. He may have studied with Roger van der Weyden in Brussels, but after 146...