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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,