The landscape painter Bierstadt joined a surveying expedition to the western United States in 1858 after studying painting in Germany.   Related Paintings of Bierstadt, Albert :. | Guerrilla Warfare | Haying, Conway Meadows | Grizzly Bears | Four Indians | The Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak |
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BLEKER, Gerrit Claesz
Dutch painter (active 1625-1656 in Haarlem)
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,
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