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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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WILLAERTS, Adam
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The Prince Royal and other shipping in an Estuary
Painting ID:: 37823 new11/WILLAERTS, Adam-849794.jpg
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WILLAERTS, Adam
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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, |
The Prince Royal and other shipping in an Estuary |
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Oil on canvas
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Related Paintings::. | The Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli near Assisi | Blessing Christ and Praying Virgin | Birth of Christ | |
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