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Wilhelmus Beurs (1656–1700) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Wilhelmus Beurs (1656–1700) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
Beurs was born inDordrecht
Dordrecht (), historically known in English as Dordt (still colloquially used in Dutch, ) or Dort, is a city and municipality in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. It is the province's fifth-largest city after R ...
. According to Houbraken, he was the son of a shoemaker and a quick study who was able to produce a good landscape after only a year's instruction, though he later took up flower painting. Houbraken met him as a fellow pupil of Willem van Drielenburg in 1671.