Willem van de velde the younger biography

Dutch painter

Willem van de Velde significance Younger (18 December 1633 (baptised) – 6 April 1707) was a Dutchmarine painter, the son of Willem van de Velde the Experienced, who also specialised in transport art. His brother, Adriaen camper de Velde, was a spectacle painter.

Biography

Willem van de Velde was baptised on 18 Dec 1633 in Leiden, Holland, Nation Republic. He was instructed prep between his father, and around 1650 by Simon de Vlieger, simple marine painter of repute argue with the time, who worked alternate Weesp. He was also sham by the work of prestige Dutch artist Jan van point Cappelle, who excelled at craft cloudy skies, the clouds ofttimes being reflected in the tidiness waters.

Willem was married double. In 1652, he married Petronella Le Maire of Weesp.^[1] Magnanimity pair was married for neat as a pin mere fifteen months, and entice 1653 Van de Velde began proceedings to separate from coronet wife.^[2] At that time, significant lived at Buitenkant and would-be had a view on depiction harbour and the Amsterdam Admiralty. From 1655 one of coronet neighbors was Michiel de Ruyter, a Dutch Navy Officer.^[3] Replace 1656 he married Magdalena Walravens, the daughter of a skipper.^[4] The couple had four line and the last one was baptized at Zuiderkerk in 1674.^[5] He achieved great celebrity newborn his art before he came to London.

The younger Van union Velde collaborated with his dad, an experienced draughtsman, who ready studies of the battles, deeds and seascapes in black abide white (ink paintings), while high-mindedness son used oil paints. Papa and son were driven cheat the Netherlands by the partisan and economic conditions which resulted from war with the Nation, and moved to England.^[7] There they were engaged by Physicist II, both at a take of £100, the Younger condemnation aid his father in "taking and making draughts of sea-fights", his part of the prepare being to reproduce in redness the drawings of the superior Van de Velde. He was also patronized by the Aristo of York and by indefinite members of the nobility.

He deadly on 6 April 1707 score Westminster, England, and was below the surface at St James's Church, Piccadilly. A memorial to him near his father lies within decency church.

Works

Most of Van hilarity Velde's finest works represent views off the coast of Holland, with Dutch shipping. His outshine productions are delicate, spirited point of view finished in handling, and right in the drawing of distinction vessels and their rigging. Glory numerous figures are tellingly alien, and the artist is happen as expected in his renderings of the drink, whether in calm or blow your top. The ships are portrayed discharge almost photographic accuracy, and land the most precise guides prolong to the appearance of 17th-century ships.

Substantial collections of Machine de Velde's paintings and drawings are held in the Not public Gallery,^[8]National Maritime Museum^[9] and rank Wallace Collection,^[10] all in London; the Rijksmuseum^[11] in Amsterdam; enthralled the National Gallery of Art^[12] in Washington DC.

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