Dutch Painter , 1837-1899   Related Paintings of Jacobus Hendrikus Maris :. | David | daughter of H.W. Brooks | Galatea (mk20) | Women want to float | The Lion of St.Mark |
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Victor DeGrailly
painted Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine in c1840
Johann Henrich Wedekind
painted Portrait of Empress Anna of Russia in 18th century
LENS, Andries Cornelis
Flemish painter (b. 1739, Antwerpen, d. 1822, Bruxelles). Flemish painter and writer. He was the son of the flower painter Cornelis Lens (d after 1766) and studied first under Charles Ykens II (1719-53) and then under Balthazar Beschey. In 1756 he was awarded first prize at the Academie of Antwerp and in 1763 was appointed to the staff on the strength of his decoration (destr.) of the refectory of the Alexians at Lier. He also came to the attention of Charles Alexandre, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, Governor-General of the Netherlands