Willem Eversdijck

Willem Eversdijck (c.1620-1671) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Willem Eversdijck
Bornc.1620
Goes
Died1671
Middelburg
NationalityDutch Republic

He was the son of Cornelis Eversdijck and flourished at Goes about the year 1660. He is known for portraits and several of these were engraved by Houbraken. In 1633 he was a pupil of Cornelis de Vos in Antwerp.[1] In 1652 he became a member of the Middelburg Guild of St. Luke, where he later died. A picture of Officers and Members of the Company of Archers, called " Edele Voetboog," at Goes, by him, is in the Rotterdam Museum.

  • 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

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.

References
  1. Willem Eversdijck in the RKD

Attribution:

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Eversdyck, Willem". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Eversdyck, Cornelis Willemsz". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.}}

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