Abraham van Westerveld

Abraham van Westerveld (ˈaːbrɑˌɦɑm vɑn ˈʋɛstərˌvɛlt, 1620/1621 — 30 April 1692, Rotterdam) or Abraham Evertsz. van Westerveld was a Dutch Golden Age painter, architectural artist, and calligrapher. He spent most of his career in the Dutch Republic, and was also employed as court artist of Lithuanian hetman Janusz Radziwiłł (1612–1655) for a time in the 1650s. Westerveld is known in Ukraine for creating a series of sketches of architectural objects in Kyiv (then Kiev or Kijów) during this period, including the Golden Gate, Kyiv, Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, and the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. In the Netherlands, Westerveld is famous for his painting of Dutch lieutenant admiral Cornelis Tromp in Roman Costume (c. 1680) in the Rijksmuseum, amongst other works.