Background
His father Adrien van Nieulandt the elder was born to a family of artists of Flemish origin from Antwerp.
His father Adrien van Nieulandt the elder was born to a family of artists of Flemish origin from Antwerp.
According to Arnold Houbraken, Willem was a pupil of Roelant Savery in Amsterdam, and he left him to travel to Rome, where he became a student of Paulus Bril. He specialized in painting artistic ruins of monuments, arches, and temples, many of which he then engraved himself. He returned to Amsterdam (via Antwerp) in 1607, and became a respected poet there as well as Italianate painter.
Nieulandt was better known as a poet and playwright than as a painter.
In May 1624 the Violieren produced his play Aegyptica (a tragedy on the theme of Anthony and Cleopatra). At some point after May 1629 he returned to Amsterdam, where he lived until his death in 1635.
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest), Budapest
Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours.
He was a member of the Antwerp chamber of rhetoric the Olyftack (Olive Branch) from 1613 to 1621, transferring to the rival Violieren from 1621 to 1629.