page_title: Rijswijk
section_title: The Arts
hierarchical_section_title: Rijswijk / Notable residents / The Arts
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Wereldkampioenschappen wielrennen te Rocourt amateur sprinters. Piet van der Touw.
context_page_description: Rijswijk, formerly known as Ryswick in English, is a town and municipality in the Western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Its population was 53,467 in 2019, and it has an area of 14.49 km², 0.44 km² of which is water.
  The municipality also includes the villages 't Haantje and Sion.
context_section_description: Adriaen van der Cabel (1630–1705) a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter
  Hendrik Tollens (1780 – 1856 in Rijswijk) poet
  P. J. Cosijn (1840–1899) a Dutch scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature
  Jacques van Meegeren (1912–1977) a Dutch illustrator, painter and suspected art forger
  Teddy Scholten (1926–2010) a Dutch singer and winner of the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest
  Felix Thijssen (born 1933) author of crime and science fiction novels and books for children
  Peter Slaghuis (1961–1991) a Dutch musician, DJ, producer and remixer
  Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (born 1968) a poet, novelist, polemicist and classical scholar
caption: Piet van der Touw, 1963
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