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, he and his brother were pupils of Frans Hals and like him, spent most of their lives in Haarlem.

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 Athanasius, Saint Anthony heard a voice telling him, " Go out and see.

According to cryptozoologists Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, authors of the Field Guide to Lake Monsters, " African guides found large, unexplained tracks along the bank of a river and later in a swamp the team heard mysterious roars, which had no resemblance with any known animal ".

According to former ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, when the President heard of this treatment, he demanded — and eventually received — Regan's resignation.

According to the legend of Dick Whittington the bells could once be heard from as far away as Highgate ( 5 miles ).

According to a reporter, "... when he takes the floor, Garfield's voice is heard above all others.

According to Hyginus, sirens were fated to live only until the mortals who heard their songs were able to pass by them.

According to records from Japanese documents, Mao Changxi ( 毛昶熙 ) and Dong Xun ( 董恂 ), the Qing ministers at Zongli Yamen ( 總理衙門 ) who handled the complaints from Japanese envoy Yanagihara Sakimitsu ( 柳原前光 ) replied first that they had heard only of a massacre of Ryūkyūans, not of Japanese, and quickly noted that Ryūkyū was under Chinese suzerainty, therefore this issue was not Japan's business.

According to Whillans, while scouting for a campsite, he heard some odd cries which his Sherpa guide attributed to a Yeti's call.

According to Fowler, John Barrymore roused as if to say something to his brother Lionel ; Lionel asked him to repeat himself, and he simply replied, " You heard me, Mike.

According to the account, Yahweh heard their murmurings, and so provided them with abundant manna and quail.

According to the ancient gnostics, this passage was to be interpreted as implying that the teachings of the son of man would automatically bring those who heard and fully understood them ( the elect ) together.

According to legend, a Roman plebeian named M. Caedicius heard a supernatural, nocturnal voice that issued from Vesta's sacred grove, at the base of the Palatine hill.

According to Don Williams, who founded the Salt Company coffeehouse in the summer of 1968, Norman " heard ‘ The Agape ,’ a hard rock Christian group, play songs about Jesus ", which " convinced Larry that he could use his rock music to communicate the gospel ".

According to local legend, one evening, after a particularly beautiful recital, the residents heard a gunshot.

According to legend, while he was at the gathering of the chiefs in Detroit, Wahbememe heard plans to attack the settlement which is now White Pigeon.

According to Meyer, Thomas's saying 17: " I shall give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard and no hand has touched, and what has not come into the human heart ", is strikingly similar to what Paul wrote in ( which was itself an allusion to )

According to legend, the Spanish heard of Bimini from the Arawaks in Hispaniola, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.

According to Mr. Burton K. Kummerow, a member of " The Black Hats, CSA " reenactment group in the early 1960s, he first heard it used as a form of fake German to describe a fellow reenactor.

According to the Saga of the Greenlanders, Leif had heard the story of merchant Bjarni Herjólfsson who claimed to have sighted land to the west of Greenland after having been blown off course.

According to the legend, Semiramis had heard about the fame of the handsome Armenian king Ara, and she lusted after his image.

According to one version, Carlyle heard a shot that had been fired accidentally outside.

According to the legend, when Lludd ruled Britain ( c. 100 BC ), a hideous scream, whose origin could not be determined, was heard each May Eve.

According to an interview with Sound On Sound magazine in 2002, the piano sounds heard within the score come from the Roland MKS – 20, a rackmount synthesizer.

According to witness accounts, the roar of the water could be heard coming down the Republican Valley five miles away.

According to the legend, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ran out of stones when building the original three-story castle keep, and an old woman heard about his trouble.