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Adriaen van Ostade
1610Dec, 10

Adriaen van Ostade

Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1685)
Adriaen van Ostade (baptized as Adriaen Jansz Hendricx 10 December 1610 – buried 2 May 1685) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works.

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