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| Willem Romeyn Triumphal Arch in Rome ca. 1650-95 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Willem Romeyn Triumphal Arch in Rome ca. 1650-95 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Willem Romeyn View in the Colosseum, Rome ca. 1650-95 drawing private collection |
"Willem Romeyn (or Romeijn) was listed in the records of the Haarlem guild on 20 August 1642 as a pupil of Nicolaes Berchem. Two years later he became a member of the guild and in 1659, 1660 and 1677 he served as one of the officials. Although his teacher probably never went to Italy, Willem set out for Rome in 1650. He is registered there in the parish records of San Lorenzo in Lucina as Guglielmo Romano, living in the Strada Paolina with a couple from Piemonte. He would appear to have moved the following year, when he was living in the Strada della Croce. In 1652 he is recorded as having left there. His departure must have been before the end of 1651, since his first son Johannes, was born in Haarlem on 26 August 1652. A second son, Dirck, arrived on 3 December 1658. Romeyn's Bentvueghel nickname has not survived. He probably died in 1695, the last year for which there are dated drawings by him. . . . Romeyn's oeuvre of drawings is a relatively large one. He made most of them, almost all executed in black chalk and brush in grey ink, in his later years. We know of more than 20 dated drawings from the period 1692-95, but many of the undated works are probably also from this time. Only a few of the drawings Romeyn made from nature in Italy have survived. He must have used them as models for all his later work."
– Peter Schatborn, from the catalogue of a 2001 exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, published in English as Drawn to Warmth: 17th-century Dutch artists in Italy, translated by Lynne Richards
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| Willem Romeyn View of the Forum, Rome 1660 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Willem Romeyn Arch of Drusus 1655 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Willem Romeyn Roman ruin with cattle 1693 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Willem Romeyn Roman ruin with herdsman ca. 1650-95 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Willem Romeyn Roman ruin with herdsmen 1693 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Willem Romeyn Banks of the Tiber, Rome 1666 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Willem Romeyn Group of Italian houses, Rome ca. 1650-95 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Willem Romeyn Herdsmen beneath rocks and walls of Tivoli, with Temple of the Sibyl above ca. 1650-95 drawing British Museum |
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| Willem Romeyn Cattle at the Porta Sant'Angelo, Tivoli ca. 1650-95 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Willem Romeyn Sleeping herdsmen and livestock with overgrown rocks and walls of Tivoli ca. 1650-95 drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to Willem Romeyn Pastoral, Italian landscape ca. 1650-95 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |