April 7 - the birthday of Gerrit Dou (1613-1675) - a Dutch Golden Age painter, who specialized in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe-l'œil (highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface) "niche" paintings.

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