Willem van der Vliet (ca. 1584 – 6 Dec. 1642); Dutch Golden Age painter. 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 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. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_van_der_Vliet) History and portrait painter, also painter of church interiors. Around 1605 he may have been trained by Michiel van Mierevelt. In Guild circa 1615. He shows influence by Utrecht Carravagists such as Van Honthorst and Peter Wtewael and by the Leiden painter Jan Lievens. Later on in his career he emphazised more classicist tendencies, subduing theatrics and action in favor of calm, timeless and stately compositions. Couwenbergh and Bramer were other Delft painters with an active interest in Van Honthorst. Van Vliet lived on Choorstraat around 1615 and owned extensive real estate in Delft. He was the uncle of Hendrick Cornelisz van Vliet (1611/12-1675). (https://kalden.home.xs4all.nl/dart/d-a-vliet-ww.htm) He studied with Michiel van Miereveld and joined the Delft painter's guild in 1615. Although later better known as a portraitist, he began his career as a history painter, a designation that, at the time, included allegory, mythology, religious subjects, as well as historical scenes. Little is known of his life, but he was famous enough to be included in Dirck van Bleyswijck's Beschryvinge der stadt Delft (Description of the city of Delft), published twenty-five years after his death. [http://godsandfoolishgrandeur.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2018-05-11T07:00:00-07:00&max-results=10&start=7&by-date=false] undefined

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