Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1450-1525  Related Paintings of CARPACCIO, Vittore :. | Vision of St Augustin fg | St Stephen is Consecrated Deacon dsf | The Triumph of St George dfg | Meeting of the Betrothed Couple (detail) sdg | The Lion of St Mark fdg |
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Attributed to john wilson carmichael
1800-1868
Hugo Salmson
1843-1894
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,