Isaac Willaerts - Coastal Landscape - WGA25765

Isaac Willaerts (1610/1620,

Utrecht Utrecht ( ; ; ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht. The ...

- 24 June 1693, Utrecht) was a Dutch painter who specialized in coastal landscapes and maritime scenes.

Life and work

His father was the painter,

Adam Willaerts Adam Willaerts (21 July 1577 – 4 April 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Willaerts (occasionally ''Willarts'', ''Willers'') was born in London to Flemish parents who had fled from Antwerp for religious reasons. By 1585 the f ...

, who gave him his first art lessons. His brothers

Abraham Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father who began the Covenant (biblical), covenanta ...

and also became painters. He worked primarily in Utrecht and was a member of the

Guild of Saint Luke The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was iden ...

, where he became an apprentice in 1637, and a Master in 1666. In 1667, he was commissioned by the City of

to restore portraits of members of the Brotherhood of Jerusalem, which had been painted in the preceding century by

Jan van Scorel Jan van Scorel (1 August 1495 – 6 December 1562) was a Dutch painter, who played a leading role in introducing aspects of Italian Renaissance painting into Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. He was one of the early painters of the Roman ...

.Meyere, Jos de; Luna, Juan J. ''La pintura holandesa del Siglo de Oro. La escuela de Utrecht'', BBV, 1992-1993. His style is very similar to that of his brother, Abraham. He often collaborated with other painters, such as

Jacob Gillig Jacob Gillig (also spelled Jakob or Gellig; ca. 1636 – 24 July 1701) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, usually of fish. Although he produced several portraits, it is for painting fish that he is best known. Gillig was born a ...

and

Willem Ormea Willem Ormea (1611–1673) was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his still lifes of subjects such as fish. Life Willem was the son of the painter Marcus Ormea and Johanna van Gladbeck. He was born in Utrecht in 1611, and probably learnt the ar ...

, for whom he painted the background seascapes to accompany his

still-life A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, ...

s of fish.

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