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, 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 Diodorus, he was father of six sons by Cyane, daughter of Liparus ( the eponym of the island Lipara, whom Aeolus assisted in conquering lands above Surrentum, Italy ).

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

According to Yevgenii Pasternak, " I couldn ’ t recognize my father when I saw him that evening.

According to Yevgenii Pasternak, his father would have been exiled had it not been for Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who telephoned Khrushchev and threatened to found a Committee for Pasternak ’ s protection.

According to one, his gifts became very apparent at the age of three when he corrected, mentally and without fault in his calculations, an error his father had made on paper while calculating finances.

According to Bancroft, Mather had been influential in gaining politically unpopular Stoughton his appointment as lieutenant governor under Phips by appealing to his politically powerful father, Increase Mather.

According to the prevalent view, Montesquieu is regarded as the ' father ' of comparative law.

According to Pissarro ’ s son Lucien, his father was impressed by Van Gogh ’ s work and had “ foreseen the power of this artist ”, who was 23 years younger.

According to Pissarro ’ s son, Lucien, his father painted regularly with Cézanne beginning in 1872.

According to one Rabbinic tradition, David was raised as the son of his father Jesse and spent his early years herding his father's sheep in the wilderness while his brothers were in school.

According to Irish mythology, Donn, or the Dark One, is the Lord of the Dead and father of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, whom he gave to Aengus Óg to be nurtured.

According to Jesuit scholar Joseph Fitzmyer, the book, " overwhelms the reader by the density and sublimity of the topic with which it deals, the gospel of the justification and salvation of Jew and Greek alike by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, revealing the uprightness and love of God the father.

According to the pseudo-historical Kojiki and Nihonshoki ( collectively known as ), Sujin was the second son of Emperor Kaika Sujin's mother was Ikagashikome no Mikoto, a stepmother of his father.

According to the Kojiki and Nihonshoki, he was the father of Emperor Ōjin.

According to Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, his father was Hikoushi no Kimi and his mother was Furihime.

According to Handel's first biographer, John Mainwaring, he " had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed.

According to the Homeric Hymn III to Delian Apollo, Hera detained Eileithyia to already prevent Leto from going into labor with Artemis and Apollo, since the father was Zeus.

According to Livy, Hannibal much later said that when he came upon his father and begged to go with him, Hamilcar agreed and demanded that he swear that as long as he lived he would never be a friend of Rome.

According to the Sekishū Masuda family-tree diagram ( 石州益田家系図 ) from the Shoshikechō ( 諸氏家牒 ), his father was Kakinomoto no Ooba ( 柿本大庭 ) and his brother's name was Kakinomoto no Saru ( 柿本 猨 / 佐留 ).

According to B. Boy Omega, a writer for The Source, the first Latino in hip hop music was DJ Disco Wiz, a product of a Puerto Rican father and a Cuban mother who was born in The Bronx.

According to an interview in The Source, he blamed the heart attack on stress brought on by his worries about being a good father.

According to Genesis 46: 11, Amram's father Kehath immigrated to Egypt with 70 of Jacob's household, making Moses part of the second generation of Israelites born during their time in Egypt.

According to Slavonic custom, a father was expected to divide his legacy among all his sons.

According to Cheong Seong-chang of Sejong Institute, speaking on June 25, 2012, there is some possibility that the new leader Kim Jong-un, who has greater visible interest in the welfare of his people and engages in greater interaction with them than his father did, will consider economic reforms and regularization of international relations.

According to the Jordanes ' Getica, around 400 the Ostrogoths were ruled by Ostrogotha and derived their name from this " father of the Ostrogoths ", but modern historians often assume the converse, that Ostrogotha was named after the people.