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The Netherlands gained its independence from Spain in 1648 at the conclusion of the Eighty Years War, after a number of bloody battles. This led to the formation of the confederation of the Dutch provinces with a Protestant leadership, under the house of Orange. Both the years that preceded and those that followed the Peace of Münster saw the growth of a large and well-to-do middle class, with considerable business interests in the newly colonized regions of the Americas and East Indies.
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Dorfman, J.R. (2000). Seventeenth Century Dutch Art: A Brief Guide to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, and to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. In: Karkheck, J. (eds) Dynamics: Models and Kinetic Methods for Non-equilibrium Many Body Systems. NATO Science Series, vol 371. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4365-3_7
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