painted Portrait of a Patrician Lady from Gdansk in 1685 Related Paintings of Andreas Stech :. | St.Eligius in the Goldsmiths' Workshop | The Lee of the Grub-Wagon | Susanna at the Bath | Assiniboin Indians | Charity | Related Artists:
WILLAERTS, AdamDutch 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,
diisseldorfThomas Craskellpainted Knowles action off Havana in1758.