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Facts

Born September 13, 1814 • Haarlem • Netherlands
Died March 13, 1903 (aged 88) • Utrecht • Netherlands
Notable Works “Camera obscura”
Movement / Style Romanticism

Photos

Beets, engraving by D.J. Sluyter
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Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom
Dutch author
William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Almqvist, detail of an oil painting by C.P. Mazer, 1836, in the Nordiska Museet,Stockholm
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
Swedish author
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Esteban Echeverría
Argentine writer
Beattie, detail of an engraving by William Ridley after a portrait by an unknown artist
James Beattie
Scottish poet
Levertin, oil painting by C.O. Larsson, 1906; in the Bonniers' Collection, Stockholm
Oscar Ivar Levertin
Swedish poet and scholar
Atterbom
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Swedish author
Petrus Borel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by C.-F. Nanteuil-Leboeuf, 1839
Petrus Borel
French author
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Hermanus Johannes Aloysius Maria Schaepman
Dutch statesman
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Edgar du Perron
Dutch writer and critic
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Aernout Drost
Dutch author
Van Lennep, detail of an oil painting by Johan Georg Schwartze; in a private collection
Jacob van Lennep
Dutch writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland.
James Joyce
Irish author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
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Tillie Olsen
American author

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