Abraham de Verwer

Abraham de Verwer (1585, Haarlem – 19 August 1650 (buried), Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter of cityscapes, (river) landscapes and seascapes.

He was also called Abraham de Verweer van Burghstrate.

[1][2] It is unknown who taught him to paint, but he was noted in his wife's testament in Haarlem in 1607 as a "schrijnwerker" or cabinet-maker, and in 1614 he was noted in an Amsterdam estate inventory as a painter.

[1] Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, was a client who purchased two cityscapes of the Louvre and two other paintings for 400 guilders in 1639.

[1][3] Verwer returned to Amsterdam, where he obtained citizenship on 23 January 1641, and bought a house on Prinsengracht in 1642.