Willem Eversdijck

Allegory of fishing, 1667-1671, by Willem Eversdijck, now in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Cornelis Fransz. Eversdijck, Mathematician and treasurer of Zeeland, ca. 1660, by Willem Eversdijck, now in the Rijksmuseum

Willem Eversdijck, the son of Cornelis Eversdijck, flourished at Goes about the year 1660. He was a portrait painter, and several of his portraits were engraved by Houbraken. A picture of Officers and Members of the Company of Archers, called " Edele Voetboog," at Goes, by him, is in the Rotterdam Museum.

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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This article incorporates text from the article "EVERSDYCK, Willem" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain. This article incorporates text from the article "EVERSDYCK, Cornelis Willemsz" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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