Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder ( 18 January 1573 – 1621 ) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

Not long after, Bosschaert had married and established himself as a leading figure in the fashionable floral painting genre.

Savery had considerable influence on the Bosschaert dynasty.

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At the time of his death, Bosschaert commanded a thousand amateur painters for the production of one floral painting.

Bosschaert became one of the first artists to specialise in still life, and in doing so he started a tradition of painting detailed flower bouquets, which typically consisted of tulips, roses and an exotic species.

Fruit still life with shells painted by Balthasar van der Ast. His sons and his pupil and brother-in-law, Balthasar van der Ast, were among those to uphold the Bosschaert dynasty which continued until the mid-17th century.

* January 18 – Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter ( d. 1621 )

Bosschaert, working from a preparatory drawing to paint his composed piece spanning the whole of Spring, exaggerated the crocus so that it passes for a tulip, but its narrow, grasslike leaves give it away.

File: Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Elder 03. jpg | Composed Bouquet of Spring Flowers, by Ambrosius Bosschaert, c. 1620 ( Louvre Museum )

His excellence in this department excited the admiration of Rubens, who frequently employed him to paint animals, fruit and still life in his own pictures, and he assisted Jacob Jordaens, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert and other artists in a similar manner.

No surviving flower-pieces by them are known, but many survive by the leading specialists, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Ambrosius Bosschaert, who both remained in the Flemish south of the Netherlands.

File: Ambrosius Bosschaert, the Elder 04. jpg | Ambrosius Bosschaert ( 1573-1621 ), Still-Life of Flowers, ( 1614 ) on copper, Getty Museum

Led by the Catholic architect-painters Jacob van Campen and Pieter Post, other major Catholic artists of the day such as Gerard van Honthorst, Jacob Jordaens, Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, Theodoor van Thulden, Caesar van Everdingen, Salomon de Bray, Pieter Soutman, Gonzales Coques, Pieter de Grebber, Adriaen Hanneman and Jan Lievens filled the Oranjezaal (" Orange Hall " ) with paintings glorifying the late prince.

He was not clever at figures, and he sometimes trusted for these to the co-operation of Cornelius Schut or Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, whilst his architectural backgrounds were sometimes executed by Quellyn.

Bouquet in an Arched Window, Ambrosius Bosschaert, circa 1618-1620.

Fahrenheit died in The Hague and was buried there at the Kloosterkerk ( Cloister Church ).

He died, aged 69, in The Hague.

He died in 1656 in The Hague, still unbelievably 18, 000 guilders in debt, forcing his widow to sell their remaining furniture and paintings.

Huygens died in The Hague on 8 July 1695, and was buried in the Grote Kerk.

Constantijn Huygens died in The Hague on Good Friday, March 28, 1687 at the age of 90.

In 1647, he died at the age of 66 in The Hague.

Willem Drees died on May 14, 1988 in The Hague, two months before his 102nd birthday.

Cals was a hard worker but this was at the expense of his health, he died in The Hague on December 30, 1971 he was 57.

He died in The Hague.

After the defeat at White Mountain, the couple took up residence in The Hague ; Frederick died at Mainz in 1632.

He lived the rest of his life in exile with his wife and family, mostly at the Hague, and died in Mainz in 1632.

Toorop died on 3 March 1928 in The Hague, Netherlands.

He died at the Hague on 7 July 1790.

She died in The Hague in 1934, of complications from bronchitis at the age of 75, and was buried in Delft.

Frederick Henry died on 14 March 1647 in The Hague, Holland, Dutch Republic.

In 1920, at the age of 83 Kuyper died in The Hague and was buried amid great public attention.

He died in The Hague, aged 74, and was buried in Leiden.

He died at Collinton House, Midlothian, in April 1858, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his son, Sir Ralph Abercromby, KCB, who was Secretary of Legation at Berlin and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sardinia between 1840 and 1851 and to The Hague between 1851 and 1858.

Hague died on New Year's Day in 1956 at his Park Avenue penthouse in New York.

* May 4 – Charles Hague, composer ( died 1821 )

Major Ryan, in command of the Alexander, wonders what he will find to say to the wives of the captain of the Clarkstown and of General William Hague, who also died in the battle.

He lived in Germany until 1933, when, with the rise to power of the Nazi party, he moved to The Hague, where he died on 27 August 1937.

The last independent countess died early on 8 October 1436 ( presumably of tuberculosis ) in Teylingen Castle, near The Hague ( where she is buried ), her estates were incorporated into the Burgundian Netherlands.

Berlage died at The Hague in 1934.