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Albert Eckhout
Albert Eckhout was a Dutch painter from Groningen who worked in Dutch Brazil from 1637 to 1644 in the household of Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen. He painted life-size portraits of Indigenous, African and mixed-descent inhabitants of Brazil, as well as still lifes of tropical fruit, among the earliest European images of the Americas made from life. Many of his works are in the National Museum of Denmark.
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