French 1758-1823 Pierre Paul Prud'hon Gallery   Related Paintings of Pierre-Paul Prud hon :. | the schimmelpenninck family | Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck with his Wife and Children | Portrat der Kaiserin Josephine | The Empress Josephine | Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime (mk05) |
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Thomas Chambers
1808-1886 Thomas Chambers Galleries
Jules Emile Saintin
France 1829-1894
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,