Maker/Artist
Vlieger, Simon de
Dutch painter, printmaker, 1601-1653
Dutch painter, draughtsman, etcher and stained-glass designer. He was one of the leading marine and landscape artists of the Dutch school and decisively influenced the direction of Dutch marine art during the 1630s and 1640s. His late works anticipated the shift from the monochrome or tonal phase of Dutch marine art to the more classical style. Comment on works: Marines; Landscapes; Portraits; Figures in Landscapes; Animals.
