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Also Known As Ejner Wegener • Einar Wegener
Born December 28, 1882 • Vejle • Denmark
Died September 13, 1931 (aged 48) • Dresden • Germany

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Thomas W. Dewing
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Piero del Pollaiuolo
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Paul de Limbourg
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Joseph Severn
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Tom Lea
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Oscar Howe
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Eduardo MacEntyre
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Michelangelo
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William Blake
William Blake
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Pablo Picasso
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Edgar Degas
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Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
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