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Duyster, Willem (Cornelisz.)
(b Amsterdam, bapt 30 Aug 1599; d Amsterdam, bur 31 Jan 1635). Dutch painter. Duyster was the eldest of four children of Cornelis Dircksz. and his second wife, Hendrikge Jeronimus, from Gramsberge, Norway. His father is recorded as a textile cutter, house carpenter and minor Amsterdam official. In 1620 the family, which also included two children from Cornelis’s first marriage, moved into a house in the Koningstraat named ‘De Duystere Werelt’ (‘The Dark World’), which gave Duyster and his half-brother Dirck their adopted surname. The family name first appears in a document dated 1 July 1625 concerning a violent quarrel between Duyster and Pieter Codde, a fellow Amsterdam artist. The argument took place at Meerhuysen, a country house rented by Barent van Someren (c. 1572–1632), the painter, dealer and inn-keeper who was a patron of Adriaen Brouwer and a good friend of Frans Hals.
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