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Adam Willaerts (21 July 1577 – 4 April 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
Willaerts (occasionally Willarts, Willers) was born in London to Flemish parents who had fled from Antwerp for religious reasons. By 1585 the family lived in Leiden. From 1597 until his death, Adam lived and worked in Utrecht. He became a member of the Utrecht Guild of St. Luke in 1611 and subsequently became its dean in 1620. His sons Cornelis, Abraham, and Isaac followed in his footsteps.
He was known as a painter of river and canal pieces, coastal landscapes, fish-markets, processions, and genre scenes. He also painted villages and marine battle scenes.
His best known work is a contemporary depiction of the Pilgrims leaving Delftshaven aboard the Speedwell.
His Allegory of the victory of the Dutch on the Spanish fleet in Gibraltar is in the Rijksmuseum.
Gallery
References
Adam Willaerts at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
L. Otto Nelemans, Adam Willaerts, Londen 1577-Utrecht 1664. Zijn leven en zijn werk, de religieuze schilderijen in het bijzonder, 1999 (Doctoral dissertation in Dutch)
Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. pp. age 716.
External links
Media related to Adam Willaerts at Wikimedia Commons
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Adam Willaerts
- Willaerts
- Adam (given name)
- Abraham Mignon
- 1664
- Speedwell (1577 ship)
- Isaac Willaerts
- Abraham Willaerts
- 1660s
- List of painters by name beginning with "W"
