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 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 the Lanercost Chronicle, Alexander did not spend his decade as a widower alone: " he used never to forbear on account of season nor storm, nor for perils of flood or rocky cliffs, but would visit none too creditably nuns or matrons, virgins or widows as the fancy seized him, sometimes in disguise.

According to this view, the poem says that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

According to Philo, the visit was met with jeers from the Greek population who saw Agrippa as the king of the Jews.

According to Kitabatake Chikafusa's 14th century account, Mototsune resolved the problem of succession by simply going to visit Tokiyatsu-shinnō, where the kampaku addressed the prince as a sovereign and assigned imperial guards.

According to a Stockholm University study in 2011, these pilgrims visit the Holy Land to touch and see physical manifestations of their faith, confirm their beliefs in the holy context with collective excitation, and connect personally to the Holy Land.

According to recollections by publisher Gardner Cowles, Willkie's visit to China involved an episode where Soong May-ling seduced Willkie and took him to one of her hideaway apartments in Chungking.

According to a late source not generally considered to be reliable, papal sanction was not secured until 1059, but as papal-Norman relations in the 1050s were generally good, and Norman clergy were able to visit Rome in 1050 without incident, it was probably secured earlier.

According to recollections by newspaper publisher Gardner Cowles, Willkie's visit to China involved a bizarre episode in which Soong May-ling, wife of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek allegedly seduced Willkie.

According to Heyerdahl, something happened between Admiral Roggeveen's discovery of the island in 1722 and James Cook's visit in 1774 ; while Roggeveen encountered white, Indian, and Polynesian people living in relative harmony and prosperity, Cook encountered a much smaller population consisting mainly of Polynesians and living in privation.

According to Dawson, workmen at the site discovered the skull shortly before his visit and broke it up in the belief that it was a fossilised coconut.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife began as a metaphor for the second migration, with Jacob's new family, possessions, and livestock, obtained from Laban, being representations of the new wave of migrants ;

According to the 9 / 11 Commission, this refusal of a visa was motivated by general concern by U. S. officials that people from Yemen would illegally overstay their visit and seek work in the United States.

According to tradition, Von Steuben was wounded during an Indian attack while on his first visit and quit-claimed his property.

According to his own words an important turning point was a visit at the late nineties at the University of Bethlehem on the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

" According to the front page report, " The out-of-town bounds restrictions that had been imposed on Crestview by Eglin field authorities were lifted at noon today January, after a conference of town officials and Eglin authorities, and it was stated that soldiers from the field may visit the town.

According to the Friday, August 12, 2011 online edition of the Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President Barack Obama, who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a three-state bus tour of the Midwest focusing on jobs, the state of the economy, and the housing market in a campaign-style event.

According to Quorthon, he came up with the name after a visit to the London Dungeon, although Jonas states that it was taken from the Venom song " Countess Bathory ".

According to a Stockholm University study in 2011, these pilgrims visit the Holy Land to touch and see physical manifestations of their faith, confirm their beliefs in the holy context with collective excitation, and connect personally to the Holy Land.

According to one account, " Haydn, on his visit to London in 1791, folksong arrangements, including The Ash Grove, set to words by Mrs Hunter.

According to the Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau, an estimated three million overnight visitors and millions of day-trippers visit the city annually.

According to the GAO report, NRC officials did not visit the company or attempt to personally interview its executives.

According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo!

According to an inscription on the pillar, it was placed there by the people then in charge of the park to commemorate Asoka's visit and gifts.

According to his biography he was in fetters in the market-place at Chester when Cynwrig the Tall on a visit to the city saw his opportunity when the burgesses were at dinner.