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 | | Michallon re-energized the art of landscape painting, avoiding the repetitiveness of Dunouy, Bidauld and Bertin, and soon established his own circle of admiring artists, of whom the most eminent was the young Camille Corot [1796-1875]. |
 | | In 1975 he received the Honorary Degree of Fine Arts from the University of South Florida, Tampa, and, together with James Rosenquist, became involved in appealing for a re-examination of taxation for non-profitmaking art institutions. |
 | | Their son, known as Jan Vermeer I [1601 – Feb 1670], was an art dealer, distiller and tobacco merchant; he is also said to have been a landscape painter, but this activity is not well documented. |
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