Identifier: dictionaryofpain05brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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aving that master hewent to Paris, where he entered the school ofSimon Vouet, and became a reputable painter ofportraits, historical subjects, and sea-pieces. Re-turning from France to Holland he visited Brussels,where he was taken into the service of PrinceMaurice, in whose employment he passed severalyears. As a Dutch soldier he afterwards tookpart in the expedition to Angola, where he paintedcostumes and landscapes. He died at Utrecht in1671. He painted the portrait of Jan Both, andwas the intimate friend of Jakob van Campen, thearchitect. Pictures by him are at Munich andBrunswick. He had a brother, Cornelis Wil-laerts, a landscape painter, and a member of theGuild of St. Luke. A second brother, IsaacWillaerts, is mentioned in the Utrecht recordsas having painted in that city in 1659. In themuseum there several pictures may be seen, bySchoorl, to which Isaac Willaerts added thefigures. A river landscape by him is in theRotterdam Museum. WILLAERTS, Adam, (Willarts, Willers,) > Q
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-5 <3 5S I—I QQW w a S PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. was born at Antwerp in 1577, and distinguishedhimself as a painter of river and canal pieces,coast views, fish-markets, processions, and soforth. His pictures are generally embellished withgroups of small figures correctly drawn, andhandled with spirit. He also painted villages andships on fire. In the year 1600 he left Antwerp,and established himself at Utrecht, where he be-came a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1611,and Dean in 1620. It has been said that he diedafter 1666, but Cornelis de Bie writes of him asalready dead in 1662. Two sea-fights by him arein the States Chamber at Utrecht, and a View ofDordrecht from the Water-side is in the museumof the latter city. Pictures by him are also to befound at Antwerp, Berlin, Frankfort, Dresden,Rotterdam, Copenhagen, Vienna, and Madrid. WILLE, AuQtrsT von, German painter, born atCassel in 1829; became a pupil of the DiisseldorfAcademy ; worked at Weimar and Diisseldorf.Many of his wo

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