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Painter from the Northern Netherlands
A.K.A.
Adam Willarts
Adam Willars
Adam Villars
Adam Weelars
Adam Willers
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Place of birth
London, UK
Place of death
Utrecht, Netherlands
Age
87 years
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The defeat of the Spanish at Gibraltar by a Dutch fleet under command of Admiral Jacob van Heemskerck, 25 April 1607
Ships off the coast
Ships off a rocky coast
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Biography
Adam Willaerts (21 July 1577 – 4 April 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
Willaerts (occasionally Willarts, Willers) was born in London to Flemish parents who had fled from Antwerp for religious reasons. By 1585 the family lived in Leiden. From 1597 until his death, Adam lived and worked in Utrecht. He became a member of the Utrecht Guild of St. Luke in 1611 and subsequently became its dean in 1620. His sons Cornelis, Abraham, and Isaac followed in his footsteps.
He was known as a painter of river and canal pieces, coastal landscapes, fish-markets, processions, and genre scenes. He also painted villages and marine battle scenes.
His Allegory of the victory of the Dutch on the Spanish fleet in Gibraltar is in the Rijksmuseum.
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