# VERELST, William [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Profession: painter - School: Dutch ## Biography William \(Willem\) Verelst, Dutch painter, active in London, part of a family of painters, nephew of Maria Verelst. His major work is perhaps the Georgia Council of 1734-55 \(Dupont Museum, Wintherthur\), but Verelst also produced a number of small-scale portraits and conversation pieces, including the fine Gough Family \(1741; Elvetham Hall, Hants\). His life-size portraits are usually distinguished by solid characterization and dramatic lighting, as in John, 9th Earl of Rothes \(1732; Leslie House, Fife\) and Mrs Bamber \(1743; Hatfield House, Herts\). Verelst also produced attractive three-quarter-length portraits of young women, for example Kitty Clive \(1740; London, Garrick Club\). ## Related artworks - [John Dean \(d.1747\), Shipwrecked Mariner]() - [Portrait of an Unidentified Man Playing a Spinet]() - [Portrait of Elizabeth Beckford with her Son Peter]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()