Abraham de Verwer van Burghstrate (1585-1650

• Was a Dutch painter.
• Abraham de Verwer was born in Haarlem.
• His wife was Barbara Sillevorts, in 1607.
• Abraham de Verwer appeared before an Amsterdam notary on January 9, 1617, however, he was identified as a painter.
• De Verwer must have learned the art of painting between 1607 and 1617, by studying with the painter Hendrick Vroom before moving to Amsterdam.
• De Verwer’s early marine paintings of the 1620s reflect the large, brightly colored, and highly detailed depictions of marine battles.
• De Verwer’s son, Justus de Verwer, who was also a marine painter, presumably trained with his father. 
• In the late 1630s he traveled to France, where he made a number of paintings and drawings of French ports and at least four paintings of the Louvre in Paris.

• In 1638, with the assistance of Constantijn Huygens, secretary to the Prince of Orange, De Verwer sent a number of drawings of French ports to Prince Frederik Hendrik.

• He later moved to a house on the Warmoesstraat.

• He was buried on August 19, 1650. 

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