1609-60
Dutch painter. She painted genre scenes, portraits and still-lifes, and she may also have made small etchings; no drawings by her are known. She specialized in small intimate genre scenes, usually with women seated by candlelight, and single half-length figures set against a neutral background. Related Paintings of Judith leyster :. | Judith Leyster self portrait | The Happy Couple | Man offering money to a young woman | Serenade | Judith leyster | Related Artists:
Henrik Nordenbergpainted Interior with a boy at a window in 1857-1928
Herman af Sillenpainted Svenskt orlogsfartyg in 1901
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,