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  • PIETER BREUGHEL (1530-1569), and his sons Jan and Pieter the younger, and

    A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875

  • I'm featuring one of the more unique versions of this watch, the 'Montre à Couilles', as detailed in Pieter Doensen's book, built as a demonstration model with two externally cased battery compartments.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Evita Bezuidenhout (alias Pieter-Dirk Uys) brought smiles and laughter to a large crowd of parliamentary workers, officials and tourists on Thursday when "she" presented a bust of herself to national assembly Speaker Frene Ginwala.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • She smiled at the idea of Pieter trying to fit his bulk into the narrow bed.

    Last April Fair Neels, Betty 1980

  • All these agreed that the hill called Pieter's was a formidable position, almost, though not perhaps quite, as strong as Railway Hill, but that beyond it the line ran through a comparatively open country, and that if this hill could be captured the relief of Ladysmith would be ensured.

    With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader 1867

  • even if they be called Pieter, which, in truth, doesn´t sound very English

    The Ashes 2010-11: Barmy Army in raptures while Australia mourns 2011

  • even if they be called Pieter, which, in truth, doesn´t sound very English

    The Guardian World News Kevin Mitchell 2011

  • The athletic, big-wingspan angel in Dutch Mannerist Pieter Lastman's "Hagar and the Angel in the Wilderness," circa 1625, is roughly the same size as Abraham's mistress herself.

    Where to Meet Some Angels 2011

  • Hans van Meegeren (sic), the Dutch painter who shocked the art world by foisting a series of false Vermeers, Pieter de Hoghs and other old masters on experts, finally was placed on trial in District Court here today.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The Hals Museum contains an excellent collection of works by other Haarlem painters of the Golden Age, including genre scenes by Jan Steen and Adriaen van Ostade, landscapes by Jacob Ruisdael, cityscapes of Haarlem by Gerrit and Job Berckheyde, portraits by Johannes Verspronck and Judith Leyster, and still lifes by Willem Heda and Pieter Claesz.

    David Galenson: Visiting the Oldest Dutch Master: The Frans Hals Museum David Galenson 2011

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