CYCLOPEDIA OK PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS LAAR, JAN HENDRIK VAN DE, born at Rotter- dam, Jan. 1, 1807, died there, May 15, 1874. History and genre painter, pupil of Cornelia Bakker (bora in 1771), and in Antwerp of Wappers; returned in 1830 and lived first at The Hague, afterwards at Rotter- dam, whence he again visited Antwerp, spending there two years. Member of Am- sterdam Academy in 1852, and professor. Works: Heroic Death of Herman de Ruyter (1840) ; Daughter craving her Father's Par- don (1842), New Pinakothek, Munich ; Pil- grim returning from Holy Land ; Fugitives Hiding ; Alice (after Walter Scott) ; A Bap- tism in 1600 ; Salvator Rosa drawing Girl's Portrait ; Wedding in 17th Century ; Bcnve- nuto Cellini in his Workshop ; Jacob van Campen and the Fortune-Teller ; Rem- brandt's Journey ; Adriaan van Ostade draw- ing from Nature ; Erasmus in his Study ; Retreat of the Waldenses ; Protestant Ser- vice in 17th Century ; Emigrants Ready to Start ; Patriotic Women at Delft in 1573 ; Allegory on Engraving (1852); Resurrection ; Two Allegories on Music representing Rot- terdam in 1829 and the Netherlands in 1854 (1854); Benvenuto Cellini and Cosmo de' Medici (1859) ; Divorce Case, Rotterdam Mu- seum. Immerzeel, ii. 146 ; Kramm, iii. 929. LAAR (Laer), PIETER VAN, called Bam- boccio (cripple), born at Haarlem about 1600, died there after 1658. Dutch school; gcnre painter, pupil of Jan van Campen (1590?- 1650) ; went with his brother Roe- land about 1623 through France to Italy, and remained for sixteen years in Rome, living in friendly in- tercourse with Poussin, Claude Lorrain, and Sandrart, but going his own way in art, which differed widely from that of those masters. He avoided the ideal, and treated, with much humour and truthfulness, realis- tic subjects, such as scenes from Italian popular life, markets, jugglers, gypsies, etc.; also landscapes, finding many imitators, no- tably Cerquozzi and Jan Miel, so that the " bambocciate " formed a special branch in art. His nickname was given him partly on account of his deformity, partly for his
