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Witsen is a
Dutch surname and may
refer to:
Members of the
Witsen family:
Cornelis Jan
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Witsen,
asteroid This...
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Nicolaes Witsen (8 May 1641 – 10
August 1717;
modern Dutch:
Nicolaas Witsen) was a
Dutch statesman who was
mayor of
Amsterdam thirteen times,
between 1682...
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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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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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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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Witsen (also
spelled Witzen) is a
patrician family of Amsterdam. Its most
notable member was the
politician and
scholar Nicolaes Witsen, but many other...
- In 1705,
Amsterdam mayor Nicolaas Witsen published a map of Tartaria, or
Tartary (Land of the Tartars), the Wild Fields...
- canal,
private collection.
Willem Witsen (1908):
Waiting Cabs, London,
Museum Boijmans Beuningen Rotterdam.
Willem Witsen (undated): Pak****zen aan een Amsterdamse...
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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...
- he
rented became the Czar
Peter House.
Through the
mediation of
Nicolaas Witsen, an
expert on Russia, the tsar was
given the
opportunity to gain practical...
