WILLAERTS, Adam

Dutch painter (b. 1577, Antwerpen, d. 1664, Utrecht) During his early years in Antwerp he was impressed with the colourful paintings of the Fleming Jan Breughel the elder, but the subject and style of his earliest known picture, Dutch East Indiamen off the West African Coast (1608; Amsterdam, Hist. Mus.), presumably painted after the artist's arrival in Holland, shows the influence of the Dutch marine painter Hendrick Cornelisz. Vroom. In this painting Willaerts adopted Vroom's austere compositional scheme of an uninterrupted horizontal expanse of water with no framing devices,


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WILLAERTS, Adam Coastal Landscape with Ships oil


Coastal Landscape with Ships
Painting ID::  7259
Coastal Landscape with Ships
1616 Oil on canvas Collection of the Prince of Lichtenstein, Vaduz
   
   
     

WILLAERTS, Adam The Prince Royal and other shipping in an Estuary oil


The Prince Royal and other shipping in an Estuary
Painting ID::  37823
The Prince Royal and other shipping in an Estuary
mk129 Oil on canvas
mk129 Oil_on_canvas
   
   
     

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     WILLAERTS, Adam
     Dutch painter (b. 1577, Antwerpen, d. 1664, Utrecht) During his early years in Antwerp he was impressed with the colourful paintings of the Fleming Jan Breughel the elder, but the subject and style of his earliest known picture, Dutch East Indiamen off the West African Coast (1608; Amsterdam, Hist. Mus.), presumably painted after the artist's arrival in Holland, shows the influence of the Dutch marine painter Hendrick Cornelisz. Vroom. In this painting Willaerts adopted Vroom's austere compositional scheme of an uninterrupted horizontal expanse of water with no framing devices,

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