Guilliam van Nieulandt II | |
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![]() Guilliam van Nieulandt in Cornelis de Bie's Het Gulden Cabinet. | |
Born | Guilliam van Nieulandt 1584 |
Died | 1635 (aged 50–51) |
Nationality | Flemish |
Known for | Painting, poetry, stage plays |
Movement | Baroque |
Guilliam or Willem van Nieulandt or van Nieuwelandt[1] (1582/84–1635) was a Flemish painter, engraver, poet and playwright from Antwerp. He spent two thirds of his career in the Habsburg Netherlands and the remainder in Italy and the Dutch Republic.[2] He is known for his Italianate landscape paintings and prints, often real views or capricci of landscapes and buildings from in or around Rome enlivened by contemporary figures or biblical or mythological scenes.[3] He is regarded as the principal poet and playwright active in the Habsburg Netherlands in the first three decades of the 17th century.[2]