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HEEM, Jan Davidsz. de
Dutch painter (b. 1606, Utrecht, d. 1684, Antwerpen).
Dutch painter of fruit and flower pieces. He studied with his father, David de Heem, and became one of Holland's foremost still-life painters. His paintings are found in many leading European museums; the Metropolitan Museum possesses three examples. His son and pupil, Cornelis de Heem, c.1631 C 1695, Related Paintings of HEEM, Jan Davidsz. de :. | Still-Life of Books sg | Fruit and Flower Still-life dg | Fruits and Pieces of Sea sg | Still-Life with Fruit and Lobster sg | Still-Life stg | Related Artists: Nikolai Petrovitch Bogdanov-Belskypainted Mental Calculation. In Public School of S. A. Rachinsky in 1895 Sir Hubert von Herkomer,RA,RWS1849-1914
Alexander von HumboldtBerlin 1769-1859 Berlin,was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography was foundational to the field of biogeography. Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled to Latin America, exploring and describing it from a scientific point of view for the first time. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Later, his five-volume work Kosmos (1845) attempted to unify the various branches of scientific knowledge.
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