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WILLAERTS, Adam, Coastal Landscape with Ships
  		 Coastal Landscape with Ships   1616 Oil on canvas Collection of the Prince of Lichtenstein, Vaduz
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WILLAERTS, Adam, The Prince Royal and other shipping in an Estuary
  		 The Prince Royal and other shipping in an Estuary   mk129 Oil on canvas
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,



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