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Amsterdam Museum; Family Group (1659), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Coast Views with Tower (1653, 1662), Brunswick Museum; Storm near Rocky Coast (1653), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.—Immerzeel, iii. 236; Kramm, vi. 1863.
WILLAERTS, ADAM, born in Antwerp
in 1577, died in Utrecht before 1662.
Dutch school; landscape, marine, and genre
painter, especially of coast and harbour
scenes, enlivened with numerous characteristic
figures; also burning ships, houses
and villages, markets and festive scenes.
Mentioned as member of the guild at
Utrecht in 1611, among the managers in
1620-37, as still living in 1649, as dead in
1662. Works: Two Sea Battles, Utrecht;
Festival at Tervueren, Antwerp Museum;
Attack of Dutch Fleet in Battle of Gibraltar
(1639), Sea Fight between Spanish and
Dutch Galleys, Haarlem Museum; Mouth of
the Meuse (1633), Rotterdam Museum; Two
Sea Battles, Utrecht Museum; Fight near
Coast between the Dutch and Spanish (1641),
Copenhagen Gallery; Embarking of Troops
on Dutch Canal (1624), Germanic Museum,
Nuremberg; Marines in Arenberg Gallery,
Brussels; in Museums and Galleries of Berlin
(1635), Augsburg, Dresden (1620), Gotha,
Frankfort (1638), Madrid (1627), Vienna
(Museum, 1631; Liechtenstein Gallery,
1616). By his son, Isaac, who was a member
of the guild at Utrecht in 1637, and its
dean in 1666, is a River View in the Rotterdam
Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 235; Kugler
(Crowe), i. 261; Kramm, vi. 1863; Riegel,
Beiträge, ii. 179; Rooses (Reber), 419.
WILLE, AUGUST VON, born at Cassel in 1829. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy in 1847-53; lived for several years at Weimar, then settled at Düsseldorf; his pictures are of poetical conception, and well supplied with fine architecture and many figures, executed with great technical skill. Works: Planning of Erection of Monastery (1859), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Luther's Arrival at the Wartburg by Moonlight, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Park Landscape; Elizabeth's Well at the Wartburg; Gate of the Wartburg; Feeding the Dogs; Woodland Scene with Huntsmen; Inner Court of the Wartburg with Luther's Arrival; Tavern Life in Seventeenth Century; City Hall at Bingen; Peasant and Antiquary; Testing Wine in Convent Cellar; Street in Marburg; Burning of Düsseldorf Academy.—Dioskuren (1861-65); Kunst-Chronik (1870-77); Müller, 558; Wiegmann, 383.
WILLEBORTS. See Bosschaert.
WILLEMS, FLORENT, born at Liège,
Jan. 8, 1823. Genre painter, pupil of
Mechlin Academy; studied especially the
old Dutch masters, and attracted attention
as early as 1840; the great success of his
picture, exhibited in Paris in 1844, induced
him to settle there. Medals: Paris, 3d
class, 1844; 2d class, 1846; 1st class, 1855,
1867, 1878; L. of Honour, 1853; Officer,
1864; Commander, 1878; Officer of Order
of Leopold, 1851. Works: Visit to Young
Mother (1844); Musical Party; The Widow;
Visit of Maria de' Medici to Rubens; Guard
Room; Woman by Spinning-Wheel (1850),
Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Auction (1851), Ravené
Gallery, Berlin; Three Ages of Man;
Engagement Ring; Silk Mercer's Shop in
1660 (1855), Napoleon III; Adorning the
Bride, Brussels Museum; Presentation of
the Future, The Widow (1863); Going
Out, L'Accouchée (1864); Aux Armes de
Flandre (1877); Lady with Lap-Dog, Czernin
Gallery, Vienna; Page with Dog, Painter
before Easel, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam.
Works in United States: Victor of
Crossbowmen (1844), John G. Johnson,
Philadelphia; J'y étais! Sealing the Love
Letter, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, ib.; Judgment
of Paris, Mrs. T. A. Scott, ib.; Good News,
W. B. Bement, ib.; Artist, August Belmont,