Dow or Douw, Gerard, a distinguished Dutch genre-painter, born at Leyden; a pupil of Rembrandt; his works, which are very numerous, are the fruit of a devoted study of nature, and are remarkable for their delicacy and perfection of finish; examples of his works are found in all the great galleries of Europe (1613‒1675).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dovrefeld * Dowden, Edward