Adam Willaerts
Dutch Golden Age marine painter
Adam Willaerts was a Dutch Golden Age painter. 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.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Abraham Willaerts Student
Fellow student
Parent child
- Abraham Willaerts Child
Artworks by this artist
- Ships along the Shore 1628
- A Marine With Five Vessels Out To Sea And Another In Port, And With Groups Of Largely Male Figures Engaged In Buying Or Selling Fish Or Other Wares
- Christian II forlader København i 1523
- Ships off a Rocky Coast 1621
- Battle for the Gold Staff (Dominion of the World) c. 1615 - c. 1630
- Stormy Sea with many Ships 1638
- Fisherfolk Hauling their Boat onto the Shore
- Naval battle near Gibraltar, 25 April 1607 (Victory over the Spanish near Gibraltar by a Fleet Commanded by Admiral Jacob van Heemskerck) 1639
- Shipwreck off a Rocky Coast 1614
- Victory over the Spanish near Gibraltar by a Fleet Commanded by Admiral Jacob van Heemskerck, 25 April 1607 1617
- Fishermen at the seaside
- Dutch Harbour with Sailing Ships
- Harbour scene
- Dutch ships in front of a rocky coast with figures, buildings beyond 1633