American Hudson River School Painter, 1835-1886 Related Paintings of Francis A.Silva :. | Grumixamas e Jaboticabas | Natureza Morta | Natureza orta | Neperas | Araca | Related Artists:
Charles lerouxFrench 1814-1895
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,
Wood John LouisLondres 1813-1901