Hooch, Pieter De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...b. c.1629, d. after 1677, Dutch genre painter. He worked in Delft, Leiden, and Amsterdam, painting intimate interiors that may have been influenced by those of Vermeer. Usually he preferred to paint rooms opening into other rooms or to...