Willem Frederik or William Frederick de Haas, who was born at Rotterdam in 1830, studied in the Academy of his native city, and at the Hague under Johannes Bosboom. He went in 1854 to New York, where he became known as a painter of coast scenery. He died at Fayal in 1880. The following are some of his best works:
This article incorporates text from the article "DE HAAS, William Frederick" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.