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        1. Rien Poortvliet ( - ) was active/lived in Holland, Netherlands.
        2. Poortvliet was a Dutch artist, and had an incredible talent for drawing at a young age.
        3. Rien Poortvliet, made famous for his Gnome books, was a skilled and clever draftsman and painter of animals in the wild.
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          5. Poortvliet was a Dutch artist, and had an incredible talent for drawing at a young age..

          Rien Poortvliet

          Dutch painter

          Rien Poortvliet

          Rien Poortvliet in 1978

          Born(1932-08-07)7 August 1932

          Schiedam, Netherlands

          Died15 September 1995(1995-09-15) (aged 63)

          Soest, Netherlands

          NationalityDutch
          Known forPainting

          Rien Poortvliet (Dutch pronunciation:[rimˈpoːrtflit];[a] 7 August 1932 – 15 September 1995) was a Dutch artist and illustrator.[1]

          Life

          Born in Schiedam, Poortvliet was best known for his drawings[2] of animals and for "Gnomes", a famous series of illustrated books with text by Wil Huygen.[3]

          Poortvliet did not attend art school and his family discouraged him from becoming an artist: `My family thought that artists were, you know, a little bit dangerous, all those naked women, all that drinking all night."[4] Instead, Poortvliet's father wanted him pursue a profession that would produce a stable income, so Poortvliet began a career in advertising, init