WILLAERTS, Adam
(b. 1577, Antwerpen, d. 1664, Utrecht)

Miracle on the Beach of Gennesaret

1640s
Oil on panel, 65 x 93 cm
Private collection

From the early 1620s Willaerts painted a number of pictures which fuse biblical narrative with marine and landscape painting. The Miracle on the Beach of Gennesaret depicts a scene of Jesus healing the sick, taken from the Gospel of Saint Matthew. Willaerts painted this episode on several occasions between 1609, the earliest dated example, and the 1640s.




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