Willem van der Vliet

An Allegory - 1627.

Willem van der Vliet (ca. 1584 – 6 December 1642^[1]) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

Van der Vliet was born and died in Delft. According to Houbraken his paintings are historical allegories and portraits. Records of his paintings are noted by the Delft history writer (unspecified Stads schryver). He had his nephew Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet^[2] as his pupil, who painted historical scenes in architectural perspectives, but who later went to work for Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt to learn to paint portraits. Houbraken preferred his (he means Hendrick's) church interiors in the style of Emanuel de Witte.^[3]

References

1. Vliet, Willem van der at the RKD databases
2. see Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet at Wikimedia Commons
3. Willem van der Vliet biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

External links

• Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Willem van der Vliet