However, she was soon contacted by Gerrit Zalm, then deputy prime minister of the Netherlands, who urged her to run for parliament.

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Reijtenbagh had sold Gerrit Berckheyde's painting of a famous Amsterdam canal to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, which had lent it out for exhibition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.

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He was assigned to audit a construction company owned by Wayne's father, Gerrit "Harry" Huizenga, a Dutch immigrant who'd moved Wayne and the rest of the family from Chicago to Florida in the 1950s.

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In Gerrit Berckheyde's painting of the "civic center" of The Hague (c. 1690), the artist erased foreground structures in order to depict the stately buildings along two sides of the Court Pond, including the back of the Mauritshuis itself.

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In the Philips wing for instance, Gerrit Berckheyde's "The 'Golden Bend' in the Herengracht" (1671-72), a shimmering, timeless image of one of Amsterdam's principal canals and a recent acquisition, was tastelessly used as a prop in a didactic display on the history of Dutch urban development.

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