Adriaan de Weerdt was a Flemish Renaissance painter.

Biography

According to Karel van Mander he travelled to Antwerp to learn to paint from Christian van den Queborn

Christian van den Queborn

Christian van den Queborn , was a Flemish Renaissance painter.-Biography:According to the RKD he became master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1545...

 (whose son Daniel

Daniël van den Queborn

Daniël van den Queborn was a Dutch Golden Age painter.-Biography:Van den Queborn was born in Antwerp. According to the RKD he became a member of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1577, but left the city and joined the guild in Middelburg in 1579. In 1594 he became court painter to Prince Maurits. ...

 became a court painter in The Hague). He returned to Brussels and painted landscapes in the manner of Frans Mostaert

Frans Mostaert

-Biography:According to Karel van Mander he was the son of a common painter, the twin brother of the painter Gillis Mostaert and the grandson of the painter Jan Mostaert. Gillis looked so much like him that their own father couldn't tell them apart. Both brothers joined the Antwerp Guild of St....

. He then travelled to Italy to learn the works of Parmentius and came back home around 1566 painting in a different style altogether. He fled Antwerp with his mother due to the Dutch revolt

Dutch Revolt

The Dutch Revolt or the Revolt of the Netherlands This article adopts 1568 as the starting date of the war, as this was the year of the first battles between armies. However, since there is a long period of Protestant vs...

 and moved to Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

, where he made allegorical prints, sometimes working with Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert was a Dutch writer, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian. Coornhert is often considered the Father of Dutch Renaissance scholarship.-Biography:...

on emblem illustrations.

According to the RKD he was active in Italy and moved to Cologne around 1566. He is known for prints and historical allegories.