Willem Welters after studying painting in Amsterdam and Berlin began a long journey to Italy fascinated by the beauty and sights of our country. He visited Venice, Florence and Rome, but around 1910 he decided to settle in Capri, where he worked for many years forging friendships with artists who frequented the island, including Antonio Leto, evolving and modifying his painting.
He arrived in Liguria in the mid-1930s and, after a brief stay on the Riviera di Levante, settled in San Remo.
His painting was mainly oriented toward landscapes, and his works were greatly appreciated by the aristocratic and bourgeois tourism that stayed in both Capri and San Remo. Endowed with remarkable technical skill, sometimes bordering on virtuosity certainly derived from his Dutch training, he skillfully combined the chromatic tones and luminous characteristics of the purely Neapolitan school.