Adam Willaerts counts as one of the great pioneers of Dutch marine painting. Merging influences of Southern Netherlandish art, in particular Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrick Vroom, he forged the signature style that became his trademark. In Utrecht, where he spent his entire productive life, the artist repeatedly fulfilled leading positions in the painters' guild and lead a busy studio, training numerous pupils, among them his three sons Abraham, Cornelis and Isaac, who would become competent painters in their own right....