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Article: THE QUIETUDE OF THE PAINTER DOU.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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THIS winter the largest-ever collection of the paintings of Gerrit Dou, consummate in all their tiny magic, travelled to Washington, Dulwich and The Hague from as far afield as Stockholm and St Petersburg. Dou's pictures have wandered much further than their painter ever did. There is no evidence that Dou ever ventured far from the fogs and Calvinism of his native Leiden. Enrolled in the Leiden Guild of Glassworkers in 1625 at the age of twelve, he started life as a glass-engraver and an actual installer of windows, but his recklessness in climbing the steep Dutch frontages in order to reglaze them worried his father so much that he yielded to Gerrit's wish to follow his ...
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Article: Gerard Dou
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...Gerard Dou , 1613-1675, Dutch genre and portrait painter of Leiden ... and worked from 1628 to 1631 in the studio of the young Rembrandt. Although he occasionally borrowed Rembrandt's themes, he was more detailed and meticulous in his ...
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