Willem van Bemmel

Willem van Bemmel, or Guillaume, or Wilhelm von Bemmel (10 June 1630 – 20 December 1708), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter who moved to Germany.

According to the RKD he was the younger brother of the landscape painter Jacob Gerritsz van Bemmel (1628-1673) in Utrecht, and they both studied under Saftleven in the years 1645–1647.

[2] He travelled to Italy, spending first the years 1647–9 in Venice, 1649–1653 in Rome (with trips to Naples), and then spending some time in London before moving to Kassel during the period 1656–1662.

The Nuremberg engraver Christoph Wilhelm Bock made a portrait of him there.

[2] He was the father of the German Von Bemmel painting family of Nuremberg.