William Verelst, active (1704–after 1756)
• Was an 18th-century English painter.
• Verelst was baptized at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
• He was certainly the grandson of
Herman Verelst and a cousin of Maria Verelst.
• He is known for portraits, still lifes, and paintings of birds.
• One of his best known paintings is Audience Given by the Trustees of Georgia to a Delegation of Creek Indians, dated 1734 or 1735.
• The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online says "William Verelst was included in the Dictionary of National Biography in the article on Simon Verelst under the name Willem Verelst and was erroneously described as the son of Cornelius Verelst", and he was in fact "the fifth of eight children of the painter John Verelst".
