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62:. Justus van Pee had been trained as a painter but was too nearsighted for the work. As a private secretary he astonished everyone by being able to read letters in the dark better than anyone else, despite his near-sightedness. Though his father had earned a title, there was little inheritance left for Emanuel when he died, so Emanuel started an art dealership to make a living, and moved to Amsterdam, where Jan van Pee was born and where he starting working for his father at a young age making copies of small cabinet paintings ("
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66:", or "works of a dozen"). When Jan came of age, he married Hendrika Matthysdr in 1657 in Leiden and they had children, but he regretted that he never visited Antwerp to admire the paintings there. His wife would never allow him.
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