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WILLAERTS, Adam

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

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