List of Famous people born in Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Giovanni Vasanzio

First Name Giovanni
Last Name Vasanzio
Born on January 1, 1550
Died on August 21, 1621 (aged 71)

Giovanni Vasanzio or Jan van Santen (c.1550–1621) was a Dutch-born architect, garden designer and engraver who spent his mature career in Rome, where he arrived in the 1580s.

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Stephanus Pighius

First Name Stephanus
Last Name Pighius
Born on November 30, 1519
Died on October 16, 1604 (aged 84)
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Gerrit Dou

First Name Gerrit
Born on April 7, 1613
Died on February 9, 1675 (aged 61)

Gerrit Dou, also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe-l'œil "niche" paintings and candlelit night-scenes with strong chiaroscuro. He was a student of Rembrandt.

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Jacob Bellaert

First Name Jacob
Last Name Bellaert
Born on November 30, 1400
Died on January 1, 1480 (aged 79)

Jacob Bellaert was an early Dutch publisher who produced seventeen books in Haarlem from 1483 to 1486. The early Netherlandish painter Master of Bellaert or Master of Jacob Bellaert is so called for his many woodcuts in Bellaert's publications.

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Peerke Willekens

First Name Peerke
Born on December 6, 1881
Died on January 27, 1971 (aged 89)
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Richard Hol

First Name Richard
Last Name Hol
Born on July 23, 1825
Died on May 14, 1904 (aged 78)

Richard Hol was a Dutch composer and conductor, based for most of his career at Utrecht. His conservative music showed the influence of Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann and the Leipzig school, though as a conductor he offered Dutch audiences the more revolutionary music of Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner.

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Marie Heineken

First Name Marie
Last Name Heineken
Born on June 8, 1844
Died on March 1, 1930 (aged 85)

Marie Henriëtte Heineken was a Dutch painter mainly known for flower still lifes. Her paintings are characterised as impressionist.

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Johannes de Bosch

First Name Johannes
Last Name Bosch
Born on June 29, 1713
Died on January 31, 1785 (aged 71)

Johannes de Bosch (1713–1785) was a Dutch painter, engraver and draughtsman. De Bosch was born in Amsterdam, the son of the apothecary Jeroen de Bosch, who owned a significant collection of paintings and drawings, he was surrounded and influenced by fine art from an early age.

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Max Nauta

First Name Max
Last Name Nauta
Died on December 18, 1957

Marten Ykes (Max) Nauta was a Dutch painter and stained glass artist. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Nauta's work was included in the 1939 exhibition and sale Onze Kunst van Heden at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

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Pieter Cornelisz Verbeeck

First Name Pieter
Last Name Verbeeck
Born on January 1, 1600
Died on January 1, 1654 (aged 54)

Pieter Cornelisz Verbeeck (1610–1654) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

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