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The Battle of Lowestoft Print by Adriaen van Diest

The Battle of Lowestoft

Landscape with Distant Mountains Print by Adriaen van Diest

Landscape with Distant Mountains

The Battle of La Hogue, 1692. Part of the Nine Years' War

The Battle of La Hogue, 1692. Part of the Nine Years' War

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The Battle of Lowestoft Print by Adriaen van Diest

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Adriaen van Diest (1655-1704) was a Dutch painter, who worked in England. He was born at the Hague in 1655, the son of Jeronymus van Diest, a painter of sea-pieces, by whom he was instructed in the art. When he was seventeen years old he moved to London, where he was employed by Granville, Earl of Bath, for whom he painted several views and ruins in the west of England. He also painted portraits, but did not meet with much encouragement, although his pictures, particularly his landscapes, possess considerable merit; as a proof of which Horace Walpole states that there were seven pictures by Van Diest in Sir Peter Lely's collection. He etched several landscapes from his own designs, in a slight, masterly style. Van Diest died in London in 1704.

Unfortunately for his reputation, he is generally known by his worst pictures, which are frequently found in old houses, on wainscots, or over doors, and are executed in a hasty manner, with much mountainous background. His better pictures have changed their name. [2]


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Bryan,1886-9

Bryan,1886-9

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This article incorporates text from the article "DIEST, Adriaen van" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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