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Bas Veth

Dutch painter (1861-1944)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ1950313
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Bas Veth (12 March 1861 – 4 April 1944) was a Dutch painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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“Bas Veth” enters the record as dutch painter (1861-1944). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Veth, Dutch and painter can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Bas Veth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.