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Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, and The Hague, to the northwest. Together with them, it is part of both Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area and the Randstad.
van is a preposition in the Dutch and Afrikaans languages, meaning "of" or "from" depending on the context.
Events from the year 1662 in art.
The year 1589 in art involved some significant events and new works.
The Confrerie Pictura was a more or less academic club of artists founded in 1656 in The Hague, by local art painters, who were unsatisfied by the Guild of Saint Luke there.
A tronie is a common type, or group of types, of works common in Dutch Golden Age painting and Flemish Baroque painting that shows an exaggerated facial expression or a stock character in costume. It is related to the French word “tronche” which is slang for “mug” or head.
Laurens Johannes Bol was an art historian who specialized in 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painters.
Hieronymus, or Jeronymus van Diest, was a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter.
Everard Crynsz. van der Maes, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Magdalena van de Passe (1600–1638) was a Dutch engraver and member of the Van de Passe family of artists from Cologne who were active in the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in landscapes and portraits, and trained the polymath Anna Maria van Schurman in engraving, one of the few known early examples of the training of one woman artist by another.
Venne is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Isaac Colonia, was a Dutch Golden Age painter of portraits, still lifes, and landscapes.
Van de Ven, Van der Ven and Vandeven are toponymic surnames of Dutch origin. The original bearer may have lived or worked near a ven, a Dutch term for a small lake, like fen derived from the Proto-Germanic fanją. Van der Plas and Van der Poel are equivalent Dutch surnames. The name can be found as early as the first part of the 14th century in Oirschot. The name is quite common in the Netherlands, ranking 41st in 2007. People with this surname include:
Van der Veen is a common Dutch surname, meaning "from the fen" or more generally "from the peatlands". In the Netherlands 19,847 people carried the name in 2007, making it the 32nd most common surname there. Dutch surnames with the same origin and meaning are Van Veen, Van de Ven/Van der Ven, Van de Venne, Veen, and Veenstra/Feenstra. The name was often taken by peat workers, as harvest of turf for fuel was abundant in the Netherlands. Since the early middle ages, the quarry of fens in the north and west created, merged or extended many lakes, most of which have now been reclaimed as polders. The harvest of turf from bogs in the east, like the large Bourtange moor, extended until the 20th century.
Sybrand van Beest, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
SV OSS '20 is a football club from Oss, Netherlands. Oss '20 plays in the 2017–18 Sunday Hoofdklasse B.
