Willem van Diest

Willem Hermansz.

van Diest (c. 1600 in The Hague – c. 1678 in The Hague), was a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter.

He was the father of the painter Jeronymus van Diest and a follower of Jan van Goyen, Jan Porcellis and Simon de Vlieger.

[1] In 1656 he helped set up the Confrerie Pictura.

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