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    Hendrick van Balen or Hendrick van Balen I (c. 1573–1575 in Antwerp – 17 July 1632 in Antwerp) was a Flemish Baroque painter and stained glass designer...
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  • Hendrick van Balen II or Hendrick van Balen the Younger (1623 in Antwerp – 1661 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter. Hendrick van Balen was the son of the...
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    figure painters Frans Francken the Younger, Hendrick de Clerck, Pieter van Avont and Hendrick van Balen. His collaborations with figure painter Hans...
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    old, he started his formal training as a painter with Hendrick van Balen the Elder. Van Balen was a successful painter of small cabinet paintings who...
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    de Lairesse (1676–1682) Odysseus as guest at the nymph Calypso by Hendrick van Balen (circa 1616) Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus by Gerard...
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    subjects. He also painted landscapes and genre scenes. Jan van Balen was the son of Hendrick van Balen and Margriet Briers. His father was a prominent painter...
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    1635 van Thulden returned to Antwerp where on 24 July 1635 he married Maria van Balen, daughter of the prominent Antwerp painter Hendrick van Balen the...
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    Shakespeare, Iphigenia and Polyxena by Samuel Coster, Palamedes by Joost van den Vondel and Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz. Films based on the Trojan War...
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    Younger in 1593, and subsequently trained with Hendrick van Balen, who was the first master of Anthony van Dyck. Snyders became a master of the Antwerp...
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    ironic and a late ingredient. According to a tradition suggested by Alfred J. Van Windekens, "cow-eyed" Hera was indeed the most beautiful, before Aphrodite...
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