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    Pieter Claeszoon van Ruijven (December 1624 – 7 August 1674) has been known as Johannes Vermeer's main patron for the better part of the artist's career...
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  • people with the surname include: Lara van Ruijven (1992–2020), Dutch short track speed skater Pieter van Ruijven (1624–1674), Dutch art collector This...
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    Thunderclap, at a gunpowder store destroyed a large section of the city. Pieter van Ruijven and Maria de Knuijt were Vermeer's patrons for the better part of...
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  • throughout his career. De Knuijt was married to Pieter van Ruijven, a wealthy citizen of Delft, Netherlands. Pieter had been identified as Vermeer's main patron...
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  • Griet remains cautious. Vermeer's wealthy but licentious patron, Pieter van Ruijven, notices “the wide-eyed maid”, molests her when he can and pressures...
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  • Pieters van Ruijven, born in 1655, on 14 April 1680, and was generally known after that by her husband's surname. Her parents were Pieter van Ruijven...
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    The painting was first owned by (and may have been painted for) Pieter van Ruijven, owner of several other paintings by Vermeer which also depicted attractive...
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  • Scarlett Johansson as Griet Tom Wilkinson as Pieter van Ruijven Judy Parfitt as Maria Thins Cillian Murphy as Pieter Essie Davis as Catharina Vermeer Joanna...
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    Frederick Chasuble Before You Go Frank 2003 Girl with a Pearl Earring Pieter van Ruijven 2004 If Only Taxi driver Piccadilly Jim Bingley Crocker Eternal Sunshine...
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    on the right in the painting belonged to Vermeer’s aunt, Ariaentgen Claes van der Minne. She had a business selling tripe, and the passageway beside the...
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    Maria Thins (mother-in-law) Maria de Knuijt and Pieter van Ruijven (patrons) Han van Meegeren Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Delft School (painting) Tronie Dutch...
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    other paintings by Vermeer, the painting was made for his patron Pieter van Ruijven (1624–1674). From him it passed possibly by inheritance to his wife...
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    Flute may have been first owned by the family of Vermeer's patron Pieter van Ruijven, and it was possibly sold at the 1696 Dissius auction in Amsterdam...
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    is unclear, though possibly it was owned in Vermeer's lifetime by Pieter van Ruijven and later inherited by Jacob Dissius. By 1904 it was one of two Vermeers...
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    collection apparently originally owned by the artist's supposed patron, Pieter van Ruijven, and the earliest record of the painting is from 1713. Up until the...
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  • was born c. 1593 in Gouda to a prominent Dutch Catholic family, Catharina van Hensbeeck (d. 1633) and William Thin (d. 1601). They lived in the house named...
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    (explosion). Pieter Claeszoon van Ruijven, a lover of architectural paintings, commissioned View of Delft along with The Little Street. Van Ruijven was a native...
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    Pieter Jansz van Ruyven (1651, Delft – 1719, Delft), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Jacob Jordaens who became...
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    New Netherland Council Cornelis van Ruijven (alternative spelling Ruyven). The lot was given and granted to van Ruijven. The deed conveys a tract of land...
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    Hans Kieslowski in Seven Psychopaths Warren Sharp in Eddie the Eagle Pieter van Ruijven in Girl with a Pearl Earring James Manning in Separate Lies John Webster...
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    ca. 1669, may have been among those owned by Vermeer's patron, Pieter Claesz van Ruijven and possibly, through inheritance it may have been passed on to...
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  • Maria Thins (mother-in-law) Maria de Knuijt and Pieter van Ruijven (patrons) Han van Meegeren Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Delft School (painting) Tronie Dutch...
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    Pieter Claesz van Ruijven of Delft before 1674, then by his widow, Maria de Knuijt of Delft, until 1681; then their daughter, Magdalena van Ruijven,...
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  • closed early on 18 October. Niall Buggy - Van Ruijven Adrian Dunbar - Johannes Vermeer Jonathan Bailey - Pieter Kimberley Nixon - Griet Sara Kestelman -...
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  • Vermeer and His Milieu, in which he mentions many new documents on Pieter van Ruijven and other principal collectors of Vermeer paintings. Montias concentrated...
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    owned by Dissius' father-in-law, Pieter Claesz van Ruijven of Delft as Vermeer's major patron, then passed down to Ruijven's daughter (1655–1682), who would...
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  • 2023-11-06. "Shorttrackster Van Ruijven op intensive care met stoornis aan immuunsysteem". nos.nl. 29 June 2020. "Toestand Van Ruijven verslechtert: 'Ze vecht...
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    patron, Pieter Claesz van Ruijven (1624–1674), and auctioned off in the Dissius sale of 1696. Its first known owner was Herman Stoffelsz van Swoll (1632–1698)...
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  • 2:08 10. "Van Ruijven" 3:32 11. "Home" 1:15 12. "Colours in the Clouds" 3:28 13. "The Master Is Painting" 2:07 14. "By the Canal with Pieter" 1:46 15....
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    Pyeongchang Speed skating Women's 1500 metres  Bronze Yara van Kerkhof Jorien ter Mors Lara van Ruijven Suzanne Schulting 2018 Pyeongchang Short track speed...
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