According to Houbraken he was a painter of historical allegories who had been a pupil of Rembrandt.

According to Houbraken, his student Mattias Spoors and the church deacon Simon Decker died with him, since they were working on a painting together at the time.

According to Houbraken, Duchesne was angry at Champaigne for becoming more popular than he was at court, and this is why Champaigne returned to Brussels to live with his brother.

According to Arnold Houbraken he was the son of a woodworker specialized in making fancy ebony frames for mirrors and paintings.

According to Houbraken, his father was an art dealer who wanted him to study languages and only allowed him to study art when his talent for drawing surfaced at a young age.

According to Houbraken his father was wealthy enough to send him to school to learn Latin and medicine and was known for perfoming manual operations in Amsterdam.

According to Houbraken, Carel de Moor told him that Berchem got his name from two words " Berg hem " for " Save him!

According to Houbraken he married the daughter of the painter Jan Wils, who kept him on a short allowance, but to finance his collection of prints he would borrow money from his pupils and colleagues and pay them back from the proceeds of paintings that he didn't tell her about.

According to Houbraken, his visit to Norway was unscheduled, but occurred when his ship, en route to the Baltic Sea, ran into a heavy storm and moored there for shelter.

According to Arnold Houbraken, Van Der Neer lived in Gorinchem as a steward to the lords of Arkel, which would account for the absence of any pictures dating from his early years.

According to Houbraken ( who used his Teutsche Academie as a primary source ), he learned to read and write from the son of Theodor de Bry, Johann Theodoor de Brie and his associate Matthäus Merian, but at age 15 was so eager to learn more of the art of engraving, that he walked from Frankfurt to Prague to become a pupil of Gillis Sadelaar ( also known as Aegidius Sadeler of the Sadeler family ).

According to Houbraken, he died while in collaboration with Jan van der Heyden and Frederik de Moucheron, painting animals on their paintings.

According to Houbraken he learned Latin in Leiden.

According to Houbraken, he became a member of the Bentvueghels and made trips to Venice and other cities with friends, painting in the manner of Salvator Rosa.

According to Houbraken, he worked day and night on his paintings, so that Joachim von Sandrart felt that his health was at risk and urged him to join him in Rome.

According to Arnold Houbraken, after an argument about the rent, de Witte hanged himself from a canal bridge in 1692.

According to Houbraken, he was a student of Jan van Goyen, and his real name was van der Touw ( English: " of String "), but that wasn't grand enough according to Van Goyen, so he changed it to mean " of Cable ".

According to Houbraken, he was the son of a respected surgeon at Gorcum.

According to Jacobus Houbraken, Metsu was taught by Gerard Dou, though his early works do not lend colour to this assertion.

According to Arnold Houbraken, he often painted young women who either sold goods at market ( fruit, vegetables, fish, poultry, or meat ) or were grocery-shopping themselves for these things.

According to Houbraken, he was famous for his battle scenes ( Conquêtes ), before being invited to France.

According to Houbraken he was considered the best portrait miniaturist in watercolors of his time.

According to Houbraken he was particularly good at inventive arrangements of subjects in engravings.

According to Houbraken, he heard this story from Abraham Genoels, who in turn heard it from Laurens Frank, an artist who was staying in the Koorman household with Artus Quellinus in Lyons at the time.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.

According to Fundinn Noregr, Ægir is a son of the giant Fornjótr and brother of Logi (" fire ") and Kári (" wind ").

According to the 2nd-century AD author Aelian, Aeschylus's younger brother Ameinias helped acquit his brother by showing the jury the stump of the hand that he lost at Salamis, where he was voted bravest warrior.

According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.

According to Capp's brother Elliot, Alfred had finished all of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw by the time he turned 13.

According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

According to mythology, Diana was born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos, daughter of Jupiter and Latona.

According to the epic of El Cid, the Castilian nobility led by El Cid and a dozen " oath-helpers " forced Alfonso to swear publicly in front of Santa Gadea ( Saint Agatha ) Church in Burgos on holy relics multiple times that he did not participate in the plot to kill his brother.

According to Kojiki and Nihonshoki, he was the fourth son of Emperor Nintoku and his consort Iwanohime, and therefore a younger brother of his predecessor Emperor Hanzei.

According to Aurelius Victor and Zonaras, on hearing the news of Gallienus ' death, the Senate at Rome ordered the execution of his family ( including his brother Valerianus and son Marinianus ) and their supporters, just before receiving a message from Claudius to spare their lives and deify his predecessor.

According to the act of settlement of 1499, George's Protestant brother Heinrich was now heir prospective ; but George, disregarding his father's will, sought to disinherit his brother and to bequeath the duchy to Ferdinand, brother of Charles V. His sudden death prevented the carrying out of this intention.

According to Plutarch, as Caesar arrived at the Senate, Tillius Cimber presented him with a petition to recall his exiled brother.

According to Robert E. Van Voorst the overwhelming majority of scholars consider both the reference to " the brother of Jesus called Christ " and the entire passage that includes it as authentic.

According to his son ( Johnny Jr ), Johnny ( senior ) was named Peter by his parents ; but, once he began to be successful as a swimmer, he formally used his brother's name, Johnny, because his brother John was, by birth, an American citizen ( and had official records that verified this fact ), and Peter was not ( this was done so that non-citizen Peter could represent USA in the Olympics ).

According to his brother Rudolf, at the age of six or seven Kurt suffered from rheumatic fever ; he completely recovered, but for the rest of his life he remained convinced that his heart had suffered permanent damage.

According to the Life of Saint Gildas, written in the early 12th century by Caradoc of Llancarfan, Arthur is said to have killed Gildas ' brother Hueil and to have rescued his wife Gwenhwyfar from Glastonbury.

According to Livy, the younger of the two daughters of Servius Tullius was of fiercer temperament than her sister, yet she originally married Aruns, who had a milder disposition than his elder brother.

According to the Annals of Ulster he was killed by his own people while the Annals of Tigernach say that the sons of his brother Máel Brigte were responsible.

According to this view, the first King Minos was the son of Zeus and Europa and brother of Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon.

According to one version, Malcolm ( then aged about 9 ) was sent to England, and his younger brother Donalbane was sent to the Isles.