The art market was as severely affected as other trades-a famous comment by Jan Vermeer's widow described how he was unable to sell work thereafter.

In Europe, some early paintings featuring girls were Petrus Christus ' Portrait of a Young Girl ( about 1460 ), Juan de Flandes ' Portrait of a Young Girl ( about 1505 ), Frans Hals ' Die Amme mit dem Kind in 1620, Diego Velázquez ' Las Meninas in 1656, Jan Steen's The Feast of St. Nicolas ( about 1660 ) and Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring along with Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window.

There are remarkable suites of Flemish tapestries, and paintings, among which the most famous is the Ecce Homo by Antonello da Messina ( 1473 ), but which also include panels by Jan Provoost and other Flemish artists, oil paintings by Domenico Maria Viani and Francesco Solimena.

" With the help of record producers Herb Alpert and Lou Adler, Jan and Dean scored a No. 10 hit with " Baby Talk " ( 1959 ), their first song to contain a few of the soon to be famous elements that became associated with surf ( close vocal harmonies, selective use of major and minor chords, falsetto doo-wop singing ) and then scored a series of hits over the next couple of years.

It would be a mistake to assume that Wycliffe's doctrine of the Church – which made so great an impression upon famous priest Jan Hus-was occasioned by the western schism ( 1378 – 1417 ).

The most popular theory, proposed by Jan Długosz, explains that Mieszko is a diminutive of Mieczysław, a combination of two elements or lexemes: Miecz meaning sword and Sław meaning famous.

** Peter Paul Rubens begins work on his famous classical tapestries, when a contract is signed in Antwerp with cloth dyers Jan Raes and Frans Sweerts in Brussels, and the rich Genoese merchant Franco Cattaneo.

The Flemish chemist, Jan Baptist van Helmont about 1635, thought he had proved water to be the essential element from his famous experiment with a willow tree.

The queen insisted upon another colloquy, which was opened at St. Germain Jan. 28, 1562, eleven days after the proclamation of the famous January edict which granted important privileges to those of the Reformed faith.

A famous example of a more recent instrumental work in minuet form is Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Minuet in G.

One of Jan's most famous works, the Ghent Altarpiece, is believed to be a collaboration between the two, begun c. 1420 by Hubert and completed by Jan in 1432.

* Jan Pijnenburg ( 1955 ), musician, drummer of famous Dutch ' 80s band Doe Maar

An example of replicas of historic Steinway pianos is the 150th anniversary grand piano, which are exact copies of the grand piano played by Ignacy Jan Paderewski on his famous United States concert tour in 1892 – 93.

Sigismund III Vasa is one of the personages in a famous painting by Jan Matejko, depicting the preaching of Piotr Skarga.

Other famous Dutch film directors are Dick Maas ( De Lift ), Fons Rademakers ( The Assault ), Jan de Bont ( Speed ), documentary maker Bert Haanstra and Joris Ivens.

— Jan Baptist van Helmont performed his famous tree plant experiment in which he shows that the substance of a plant derives from water, a forerunner of the discovery of photosynthesis.

Their success was built on the foundations laid down by other famous players like Coen Dillen, Willy van der Kuijlen, Jan van Beveren, Jan Poortvliet, and the Van de Kerkhof brothers, Willy and René.

The most famous examples of political terrorism by Stoke Newington residents, none originally from the area, are Patrick Hayes, Jan Taylor and Muktar Said Ibrahim.

The church itself was designed by Jan Stuyt, a pupil of the famous architect Pierre Cuypers.

Jan Pieterszoon Coen ( 1587 – 1629 ) is famous for his violent raids in Dutch Indies ( now Indonesia ), where he " founded " the city of Batavia in 1619 ( now Jakarta ).

Capelle aan den IJssel's most famous resident is former Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who has lived there since 1999.

Oegstgeest is the birthplace of the famous Dutch writer Jan Wolkers as well as stand up comedian Theo Maassen.

During World War II, " The Prussian Tribute ", the famous Polish painting by Jan Matejko, was transferred secretly from Kraków and hidden in the vault of the church to protect it from the Nazis.

* Jan Himpe, musician and composer famous for the local evergreen " We zijn van't oude Roeselare "

Beersel is perhaps most famous for the " Kasteel van Beersel " or Beersel Castle, built between 1300 and 1310 by Jan II, the Duke of Brabant, as a defense for Brussels.

History painting | Painting by Jan Matejko | Matejko, 1882.

Saint Boniface ( c 680 – 750 ), Pope Gregory I ( c 540 – 604, r. 590 – 604 ), Adalbert of Egmond ( 8th century ), and priest Jeroen van Noordwijk, depicted in a 1529 painting by Jan Joostsz van Hillegom, currently on display at the Frans Hals Museum.

He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the " northern realism " of the Early Netherlandish painting that came into full flower with the work of Jan van Eyck and others in the next generation.

Knighted cavalry and noblemen, painting by Jan van Eyck ( ca.

He is one of the figures on the Prussian Homage painting by Jan Matejko.

Jan van Goyen would begin a painting using a support primarily of thin oak wood.

Jan Lievens's painting of Saladin ( ca.

* In 1952, the logo was redesigned as a matte painting created by Jan Domela.

Cyril and Methodius, painting by Jan Matejko, 1885

Detail from a painting by Jan Verkolje, Dutch, c. 1674, Elegant Couple ( A Musical Interlude ).

Prussian Homage ( painting ) | Prussian Homage, by Jan Matejko, 1882.

Unfinished painting by Jan Matejko.

However the painting was not finished until six years after his death, in 1432, so the degree to which the surviving altarpiece reflects his work, rather than that of Jan who took it over, remains much discussed.

Writing in 1933, art historian Bryson Burroughs, who at that time attributed to Hubert the Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych and whom he describes as " the fountainhead of northern painting ", suggests he did the underdrawing for the Ghent Altarpiece with Jan painting in after his brother's death.

The young prince portrayed in a flower garland painting by Jan Davidsz de Heem filled with symbols of the House of Orange-Nassau | House of Orange.

* Jan Nepomucen Głowacki, considered the father of Polish school of landscape painting, was the first to devote an entire series of works to Tatra Mountains

This tradition is celebrated every year by an annual oil painting by local artist Jan Castle Reed.

Kościuszko and War scythe | scythe men detail of Jan Matejko painting Battle of Racławice 1888.

:* Goyen, Jan van-1 painting

Three Bulgarian women of Thrace, of Shopi | Shopluk and of Macedonia ( region ) | Macedonia, painting by Jan Mrkvička.

The Prussian Homage ( painting ) | Prussian Homage ( by Jan Matejko, 1882, National Museum, Kraków ): Albert, Duke of Prussia | Albert receives eastern Prussia as a fief from King Sigismund I the Old | Sigismund I of Poland in 1525.