Guiliam or Willem Backereel (1570 in
Antwerp
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– 10 August 1626 in
Rome
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), was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken, who repeated the information from
Joachim von Sandrart
Joachim von Sandrart (12 May 1606 – 14 October 1688) was a German Baroque art-historian and painter, active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. He is most significant for his collection of biographies of Dutch and German artists the '' ...
's ''Teutsche Academie'', Willem Backereel was from a large painting family that always had a few brothers in Rome. Willem's brother
Gillis Backereel lived with him in Rome, but returned to Antwerp, where he later died. Both brothers were known as landscape painters.
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