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Witsen is a
Dutch surname and may
refer to:
Members of the
Witsen family:
Cornelis Jan
Witsen Nicolaes Witsen Willem Witsen 10653
Witsen,
asteroid This...
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Nicolaes Witsen (8 May 1641 – 10
August 1717; Dutch:
Nicolaas Witsen) was a
Dutch statesman who was
mayor of
Amsterdam thirteen times,
between 1682 and...
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Willem Arnoldus Witsen (13
August 1860 – 13
April 1923, Amsterdam) was a
Dutch painter and
photographer ****ociated with the
Amsterdam Impressionism movement...
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Witsen, also Fort Tacaray, was a fort on the
Dutch Gold Coast,
established in 1665 near Takoradi. This fort was destro****
after a few years, and in...
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Witsen (also
spelled Witzen) is a
patrician family of Amsterdam. Its most
notable member was the
politician and
scholar Nicolaes Witsen, but many other...
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potato harvesting appeared in
European art,
including the
works of
Willem Witsen and
Anton Mauve. Van Gogh's 1885
painting The
Potato Eaters portrays a family...
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against romanticism,
influencing other painters such as
Isaac Israëls,
Willem Witsen, and
poets like
Willem Kloos. In 1886, he
entered the
Rijksakademie of Amsterdam...
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Following a
second voyage, in 1694, he was asked, on
request of
Nicolaes Witsen, to
mount an
expedition to
search for the
Ridderschap van Holland, a VOC...
- In 1705,
Amsterdam mayor Nicolaas Witsen published a map of Tartaria, or
Tartary (Land of the Tartars), the Wild Fields...
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brought to
Western Europe twenty years later by the
Dutch statesman Nicolaes Witsen, who
reported his stay and
journeys among the Tungusic- and Samo****ic-speaking...
