Paulus Potter was a Dutch painter who specialized in animals within landscapes, usually with a low vantage point.
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.
CasparNetscher was a Dutch portrait and genre painter. He was a master in depicting oriental rugs, silk and brocade and introduced an international style to the Northern Netherlands.
Jan van Huysum is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; “by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held to be the best painter of flowers.” Trained in decoration from a young age, he “gradually developed an execution of details of the utmost beauty and finish” creating “wonderful flower pieces whereon drops of water and crawling ants could be seen without a magnifying glass.”
Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, often abbreviated as Michiel Jansz. and the surname also spelled Miereveld or Miereveldt, was a Dutch painter and draftsman of the Dutch Golden Age.
Jan Lievens was a Dutch Golden Age painter who was associated with his close contemporary Rembrandt, a year older, in the early parts of their careers. They shared a birthplace in Leiden, training with Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam, where they shared a studio for about five years until 1631. Like Rembrandt he painted both portraits and history paintings, but unlike him Lievens' career took him away from Amsterdam to London, Antwerp, The Hague and Berlin.
Jacob van Huysum was an 18th-century botanical painter from the northern Netherlands who moved to England in 1721.
Gerard Brandt was a Dutch preacher, playwright, poet, church historian, biographer and naval historian. A well-known writer in his own time, his works include a Life of Michiel de Ruyter and a Historie der vermaerde zee- en koopstadt Enkhuisen.
Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten or Johannes was a Dutch painter of marine art, particularly of events of the First Anglo-Dutch War and Dutch-Swedish War. Van Beerstraten depicted ports (Civitavecchia) and cityscapes of Amsterdam, as well as many cities and villages in the Netherlands. He captured castles, churches and other buildings that no longer exist.
Michiel van Musscher was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Justus van Huysum, also spelled Huijsum, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Jan de Visscher, was a Dutch Golden Age engraver who became a painter in later life.
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, was an eighteenth-century Dutch painter and art collector.
Francina Margaretha van Huysum (1707–1789), was a Dutch 18th-century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Margaretha Haverman was an 18th-century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands.
Cornelis Claesz Anslo was a Dutch Mennonite minister, known best today for his portraits by Rembrandt.
Catherina Elisabeth Schouten (1887–1967) was a Dutch painter.
Wendela Bicker was the wife of Johan de Witt. She was one of the richest young female commoners of her time and she married one of the most influential republican politicians in the Netherlands. She was in the public eye during her lifetime and entered history books thereafter. This is facilitated by the letters and the housekeeping books she left behind. The narrative about her life reflects how the role of women in the Netherlands in the 17th century was and is understood.
Justus van Huysum II, sometimes styled Justus II van Huysum or Justus van Huysum the Younger (1684–1706) was a member of the van Huysum Dutch painting family. He painted “battle-pieces with extraordinary spirit and facility.” He died relatively young but his artworks are in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig, Germany and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
