#farmers

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Farmer from Laren, North Holland by Martinus van Regteren Altena, 1902

Public domain

The village in the title had turned into an artists' colony by then — painters moving out to a farming place on the heath specifically to paint the people already living there. From what I read, whole careers got built on that arrangement. The farmers mostly stayed farmers.

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