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Ottomar Elliger III
Read more...Dutch engraver, draughtsman, teacher. Grandson of Flemish painter Ottomar Elliger I (1633–1679) and son of German history painter and engraver Ottomar Elliger II (1666–1735). Born in Amsterdam (1703)...
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Jacobus Houbraken
Read more...Dutch engraver, collector. Son of the Dutch painter and art historian Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719). Born in Dordrecht (1698) and moved with his family to Amsterdam (1710). Studied engraving under his...
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Adriaan Schoonebeek
Read more...Dutch engraver, cartographer. Studied engraving under Romeyn de Hooghe (1676–79). Taught etching to Peter the Great during his Great Embassy to Holland (1697) and was invited to Russia to work on com...
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