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Excerpt from Encyclopedia Americana, Vol. 5: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; On the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon
Everdingen; the name of a celebrated Dutch family of painters. Of these, Caz sar van Everdingen was distinguished as a portrait and historical painter and archi-l tect. He was born at Alcmaer, 1606, died 1679. His younger brother Alder van Everdingen, was a celebrated land scape painter, born 1621. His sea pieces, in which he represents the disturbed ele ment with great truth to nature, are par ticularly celebrated. III forest scenes, too, he was a master. He is known, also, as an able engraver, by his plates to Renard the Fox. He died l675. - The youngest brother, John, born 1625, was a lawyer, and painted only for his own amusement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
