Willem Eversdijck (-1671) was a

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painter. He was the son of Cornelis Eversdijck and flourished at

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about the year 1660. He is known for

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and several of these were engraved by Houbraken. In 1633 he was a pupil of

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in Antwerp.Willem Eversdijck in the

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In 1652 he became a member of the Middelburg Guild of St. Luke, where he later died. A picture of Officers and Members of the Company of Archers, called " Edele Voetboog," at Goes, by him, is in the Rotterdam Museum. File:Allegorie op visserij.jpg, ''Allegory of fishing'', 1667–1671, by Willem Eversdijck, now in the

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File:W. Eversdijck Cornelis Fransz. Eversdijck 1660-1666.jpg, ''Cornelis Fransz. Eversdijck'', Mathematician and treasurer of Zeeland, ca. 1660, by Willem Eversdijck, now in the Rijksmuseum Cornelis Willemsz Eversdijck, his father, was also a portrait painter of Goes, who died there in 1649. In the Rotterdam Museum are three pictures by him, representing Officers and Members of the Company of Archers, called "Edele Voetboog," at Goes; two of which are dated 1616 and 1624.

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Year of birth unknown 1671 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Dutch portrait painters People from Goes Year of birth uncertain {{Netherlands-painter-stub