Willem Backereel [SEP] occupation
Willem Backereel
Guiliam or Willem Backereel (1570 in Antwerp – 10 August 1626 in Rome), was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter.
Biography.
According to Houbraken, who repeated the information from Joachim von Sandrart's "Teutsche Academie", Willem Backereel was from a large painting family that always had a few brothers in Rome. Willem's brother Gillis Backereel lived with him in Rome, but returned to Antwerp, where he later died. Both brothers were known as landscape painters.
According to the RKD he
the Backereel family produced a number of artists and that Joachim von Sandrart mentioned seven or eight Backereel family members that he knew personally. Today Gillis is one of only three Backereel family members documented. The other two are Gillis' brother Willem Backereel and Jacques Backereel.
The date of Gillis' death is not recorded but is believed to have occurred between 1654 and 1662.
Work.
Not many of Backereel's works have been preserved. They all depict religious and mythological subject matter.
His "Adoration of the