Willem van Diest

Dutch Golden Age seascape painter

View of Fort Rammekens near Vlissingen, 1657

Willem Hermansz. van Diest (c. 1600 in The Hague – c. 1678 in The Hague), was a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter.

He was the father of the painter Jeronymus van Diest and a follower of Jan van Goyen, Jan Porcellis and Simon de Vlieger.[1] In 1656 he helped set up the Confrerie Pictura.[1]

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* Shipwreck in a Storm (1629). The Walters Art Museum.

## References

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1. ^ a b Willem Diest in the Netherlands Institute for Art History

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