Maarten van Heemskerck or Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher's Italian-influenced style. He spent the years 1532–6 in Italy. He produced many designs for engravers, and is especially known for his depictions of the Wonders of the World.
The Battle of Lowestoft took place on 13 June [O.S. 3 June] 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. A fleet of more than a hundred ships of the United Provinces commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer, Lord Obdam, attacked an English fleet of equal size commanded by James, Duke of York, forty miles east of the port of Lowestoft in Suffolk.
Cornelis de Witt was a Dutch politician and naval commander of the Golden Age. During the First Stadtholderless Period De Witt was an influential member of the Dutch States Party, and was in opposition to the House of Orange. In the Rampjaar of 1672 he was lynched together with his brother Johan de Witt by a crowd incited by Orange partisans.
Jan Pieter Marie Laurens de Vries was a Dutch philologist, linguist, religious studies scholar, folklorist, educator, writer, editor and public official who specialized in Germanic studies.
Jacob van Heemskerck was a Dutch explorer and naval admiral.
Laurens Reael was an employee of the Dutch East India Company, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1616 to 1619, and an admiral of the Dutch Republican Navy from 1625 to 1627.
Jan Janszoon van Nes was a Dutch admiral and brother of naval commander Aert Janszoon van Nes. They both took part in the Raid on the Medway of 1667. He was buried in the Grote of Sint-Laurenskerk (Rotterdam) Church.
Johan Evertsen de Liefde was a Dutch naval commander who served as vice admiral of Holland and West Frisia within the Admiralty of Rotterdam. His elder brother, Cornelis de Liefde, was also a naval commander. Johan was killed in the battle of Texel.
Isaac Sweers was a 17th-century Dutch vice-admiral with the Admiralty of Amsterdam who fought in the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Joos de Moor was a Dutch Vice Admiral of Zeeland from the 16th century. In 1603 in the Battle of Sluis he defeated a Spanish fleet under Admiral Federico Spinola. He was the son of Jan de Moor, first vice-admiral of Zeeland. He was married to Dina Crins, Janneken Ingels, and Catarina Struvingts. He died at Vlissingen and is buried in the St James the Great Church.
Claes Jacobsz van der Heck, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Claes Dircksz van der Heck, was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Christoffel van Sichem, was a Dutch Golden Age woodcutter and engraver.
Laurens is a masculine Dutch given name, the equivalent of Lawrence. Notable people with the name include:
Jkhr. Jacob Eduard van Heemskerck van Beest was a Dutch painter.
Petrus Opmeer (1526–1594) was a Dutch Catholic historian and controversialist. According to his biographer Valerius Andreas, Opmeer was a friend of "painters, sculptors and architects", including Maarten van Heemskerck, Pieter Aertsen, Willem Danielsz van Tetrode, Frans Floris, Antonis Mor and Philip Galle.
Cornelis Bicker van Swieten, heer (lord) van Swieten, was an Amsterdam regent of the Dutch Republic during the Golden Age and a governor of the Dutch West India Company. He was also a sugar merchant, hoogheemraad of the Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland and a counsellor of the States of Holland and West Friesland for Amsterdam at The Hague. He belonged to the Dutch States Party and was in opposition to the House of Orange.
Van der Heck is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Pieter Pietersz Bicker was a Dutch brewer and politician.
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