Willem van Nieulandt II (1584–about 1635)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver, poet and playwright from Antwerp.
• His father Adrien van Nieulandt the elder was born to a family of artists of Flemish origin from Antwerp.
• He moved with his family to Amsterdam in 1589.
• His three sons Willem van Nieulandt II (named for his uncle, also a painter), Adriaen van Nieulandt the younger, and Jacob van Nieulandt all became painters.
• Willem was a pupil of Roelant Savery in 1599, and in 1601 he travelled to Rome, where he became a student of Paulus Bril.
• According to Arnold Houbraken, he specialized in painting artistic ruins of monuments, arches, and temples, many of which he then engraved himself.
• In Spring 1606 the 22-year-old married Anna Hustaert in Amsterdam, but the couple settled in Antwerp. 
• Nieulandt was better known as a poet and playwright than as a painter.

• He was a member of the Antwerp chamber of rhetoric the Olyftack from 1613 to 1621, transferring to the rival Violieren from 1621 to 1629.

• In May 1620 he won the prize for best poem at a rhetoric competition in Mechelen, writing under the pen name Dient uwen Al (Serve your All).

• At some point after May 1629 he returned to Amsterdam, where he lived until his death in 1635.

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