Artist

(b. 1678, Vlieland, d. 1754, Spaarndam)

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Nicolaas Samuel Cruquius (Kruikius), Dutch hydraulic engineer, land surveyor and amateur landscape painter. His original name was Nicolaas Kruik, but, like many well-educated men of his time, he Latinized his name to Nicolaus Samuel Cruquius. He was one of many promoters of a plan to pump the Haarlemmermeer (Haarlem lake) dry. //

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Category	Artists
Artists by letter	C
Artist nationality	Dutch