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Jan van der Heyden
1637–1712
(b Gorinchem, 5 Mar. 1637; d Amsterdam, 28 Mar. 1712). Dutch painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and inventor, active in Amsterdam. He painted some landscapes and still lifes, but is renowned mainly as one of the greatest of all townscape painters.
Text Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)