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BACKHUYSEN, or BAKHUISEN, See also:LUDOLF (1631-1708)  , Dutch painter, was See also:born at See also:Emden, in See also:Hanover . He was brought up as a See also:merchant at See also:Amsterdam, but See also:early discovered so strong a See also:genius for See also:painting that he relinquished business and devoted himself to See also:art . He studied first under Allart See also:van See also:Everdingen and then under Hendrik Dubbels, two eminent masters of the See also:time, and soon became celebrated for his See also:sea-pieces . He was an ardent student of nature, and frequently exposed himself on the sea in an open See also:boat in See also:order to study the effects of tempests . His compositions, which are very numerous, are nearly all See also:variations of one subject, and in a See also:style peculiarly his own, marked by intense See also:realism or faithful See also:imitation of nature . In his later years See also:Backhuysen employed his time in See also:etching and calligraphy . He died in Amsterdam on the 17th of See also:November 1708 .

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