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Baptist Wolfaerts was a specialist landscape painter who is known for his Italianate landscapes with figures. His early works included italianate townscapes. His principal subject was pastoral landscapes with shepherds and their herds. Such landscapes would on occasion include depictions of
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Baptist Wolfaers, Jan Baptist Woolfaert, Jan Wolvertsz., Jan Baptist Wholfaert, Jan Baptist Wolfart, Jan Baptist Wolfert, Jan Baptist Wolferts, Jan Wolffertsz., Jan Baptist Wolffordt, Jan Baptist Wolfaert, Jan Baptist Wolfraat, Jan Baptist
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