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akg7912986 WILLAERTS, ADAM1577 Antwerp - 1664 UtrechtPart of the Coast with Sailors in front of a Harbour. Oil on wood. Parqueted. 46 x 84cm. Monogrammed and dated lower right: A.W. F. 1642. Framed. The crests of the waves approach the coast in an almost ornamental manner. The sea is presented completely even, but still somehow troubled. At the coast and on the sailing ships, of which some have hoisted the sails, there are numerous figures. In the front margin these are arranged on the same level and, contrary to the figures in the back, they can easily be distinguished. The figures are fishermen who are depicted doing their daily work. The entire painting is kept in shades of light green and blue, and the depiction of the figures is subject to this concept of colouring. However, the figures have few red accents. Taken as a whole the painting creates a calm and colour-balanced atmosphere. Adam Willaerts (alias Willarts, Willers) was born to Flemish parents in London in 1577. For religious reasons his parents had fled from Antwerp. From 1597 until his death in 1664 he lived and worked in Utrecht and joined the Utrecht St. Lucas gild. His sons Cornelis, Abraham, and Isaac followed him. The painter family was known for depictions of riverscapes and canal landscapes as well as for seascapes, sea battles, and other genre scenes.The signature ""A.W."" indicates the authorship of either the father or the son Abraham. Abraham (ca. 1603-1669) created a large number of seascapes in a similar manner. In 1624 he became master of the Utrecht painter's gild. He was part of the entourage of Earl Johann Moritz von Nassau in Brazil. After returning to Holland in 1644 he spent some time at the architect Jacob van Campen's manor Randenbroek near Amersfoort, then he went on another journey and in 1659 he arrived in Rome where he joined the local association of Schilderbent under the name of ""Indiaen"". Whether the beach scenes of the Würzburg University and the Braunschweig Museum from the 50s, which are attributed to him, were created by him or by his father Adam cannot be determined, because not only the monograms of the two artists, but also their way of painting and their artistic concept resemble each other to the point that a definitive statement of the individual oeuvre has not yet been possible. Therefore the authorship of the present works cannot be precisely determined. Only the fact that the painting is dated to 1642 could shed light on this problem, because according to his biography Abraham was in Brazil at that time. We would like to thank Dr. Laurens Schoemaker, RKD The Hague, for his kind support.

akg7912984 WILLAERTS, ADAM1577 Antwerp - 1664 UtrechtPart of the Coast with Sailors in front of a Harbour. Oil on wood. Parqueted. 46 x 84cm. Monogrammed and dated lower right: A.W. F. 1642. Framed. The crests of the waves approach the coast in an almost ornamental manner. The sea is presented completely even, but still somehow troubled. At the coast and on the sailing ships, of which some have hoisted the sails, there are numerous figures. In the front margin these are arranged on the same level and, contrary to the figures in the back, they can easily be distinguished. The figures are fishermen who are depicted doing their daily work. The entire painting is kept in shades of light green and blue, and the depiction of the figures is subject to this concept of colouring. However, the figures have few red accents. Taken as a whole the painting creates a calm and colour-balanced atmosphere. Adam Willaerts (alias Willarts, Willers) was born to Flemish parents in London in 1577. For religious reasons his parents had fled from Antwerp. From 1597 until his death in 1664 he lived and worked in Utrecht and joined the Utrecht St. Lucas gild. His sons Cornelis, Abraham, and Isaac followed him. The painter family was known for depictions of riverscapes and canal landscapes as well as for seascapes, sea battles, and other genre scenes.The signature ""A.W."" indicates the authorship of either the father or the son Abraham. Abraham (ca. 1603-1669) created a large number of seascapes in a similar manner. In 1624 he became master of the Utrecht painter's gild. He was part of the entourage of Earl Johann Moritz von Nassau in Brazil. After returning to Holland in 1644 he spent some time at the architect Jacob van Campen's manor Randenbroek near Amersfoort, then he went on another journey and in 1659 he arrived in Rome where he joined the local association of Schilderbent under the name of ""Indiaen"". Whether the beach scenes of the Würzburg University and the Braunschweig Museum from the 50s, which are attributed to him, were created by him or by his father Adam cannot be determined, because not only the monograms of the two artists, but also their way of painting and their artistic concept resemble each other to the point that a definitive statement of the individual oeuvre has not yet been possible. Therefore the authorship of the present works cannot be precisely determined. Only the fact that the painting is dated to 1642 could shed light on this problem, because according to his biography Abraham was in Brazil at that time. We would like to thank Dr. Laurens Schoemaker, RKD The Hague, for his kind support.