A rocky coast with fishermen and two Dutch ships at anchor

ADAM WILLAERTS

London 1577-1644 Utrecht

Oil on panel 17,6 x 27 cm.
Signed and dated lower right ‘A. Willaerts 1618’

Provenance
Private collection, Sweden
Kunsthandel P. de Boer. Amsterdam
Private Collection, The Netherlands

Adam Willaerts was born in London to Flemish parents who had fled from Antwerp for religious reasons. By 1585, the family lived in Leiden. From 1577 until his death, Adam lived and worked in Utrecht. He became a member of the Utrecht Guild of St. Luke’s in 1611, and subsequently became its dean in 1620. He taught his sons Cornelis, Abraham and Isaac and they followed in his footsteps. Adams Allegory of the victory of the Dutch on the Spanish fleet in Gibraltar, is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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