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Francois (Frans) Verwilt (c.1623 in
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Francois (Frans) Verwilt (c.1623 in Rotterdam
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- 8 August 1691 in Rotterdam) was
as a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Biography
He was the son of the painter Adriaan Verwilt of Antwerp and was apprenticed to Cornelius van Poelenburgh (1586–1667) inUtrecht
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together with Jan van der Lijs, among others.François Verwiltin the
RKD
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He is considered part of the "Poelenburch landscape school". According to Houbraken, who mentioned him as a pupil of Van Poelenburch, he painted the flesh tones of his figures in the manner of another Poelenburch pupil from The Hague, Daniel Vertangen.