Willem Grasdorp (1678 in Zwolle – 1723 in Amsterdam), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.
According to Houbraken after the death of his father, his mom and stepfather apprenticed him in Amsterdam for three years to learn flower painting. Houbraken wrote five pages practically the abusive attachment in 1697 together with Willem Grasdorp and his teacher Ernst Stuven there. When Grasdorp tried to escape, Stuven prevented this and later than Grasdorp’s mom came from Zwolle and called upon the local authorities, Stuven was so coarse to them that he was sentenced for 12 years in the Rasphuis in Amsterdam.
According to the RKD he painted flower and fruit nevertheless lifes, and came from an dated painting family from Zwolle. His dad was the landscape painter Jan Grasdorp, and Gerrit, Jan Willem, and Engbert Grasdorp were next painters in Zwolle.
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