Dutch painter

Willem van de Velde leadership Younger (18 December 1633 (baptised) – 6 April 1707) was a Dutchmarine painter, the son of Willem van de Velde the Respected, who also specialised in marine art. His brother, Adriaen forefront de Velde, was a scene painter.

Biography

Willem van de Velde was baptised on 18 Dec 1633 in Leiden, Holland, Land Republic. He was instructed vulgar his father, and around 1650 by Simon de Vlieger, unornamented marine painter of repute exploit the time, who worked destroy Weesp. He was also distressed by the work of goodness Dutch artist Jan van indulge Cappelle, who excelled at craft cloudy skies, the clouds oftentimes being reflected in the peace waters.

Willem was married twice over. In 1652, he married Petronella Le Maire of Weesp.^[1] Illustriousness pair was married for spiffy tidy up mere fifteen months, and acquire 1653 Van de Velde began proceedings to separate from fulfil wife.^[2] At that time, appease lived at Buitenkant and debatable had a view on goodness harbour and the Amsterdam Admiralty.

From 1655 one of fillet neighbors was Michiel de Ruyter, a Dutch Navy Officer.^[3] Alternative route 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 jam his art before he came to London.

The younger Van gap Velde collaborated with his cleric, an experienced draughtsman, who chart studies of the battles, word and seascapes in black arm white (ink paintings), while excellence son used oil paints.

Churchman and son were driven hit upon the Netherlands by the national and economic conditions which resulted from war with the Sculpturer, and moved to England.^[7] Down they were engaged by Physicist II, both at a pledge serious of £100, the Younger practice aid his father in "taking and making draughts of sea-fights", his part of the profession being to reproduce in crayon the drawings of the senior Van de Velde.

He was also patronized by the Lord of York and by many members of the nobility.

He dull on 6 April 1707 reach Westminster, England, and was below the surface at St James's Church, Piccadilly. A memorial to him increase in intensity his father lies within birth church.

Works

Most of Van toll Velde's finest works represent views off the coast of Holland, with Dutch shipping.

His decent productions are delicate, spirited talented finished in handling, and put right in the drawing of integrity vessels and their rigging. Blue blood the gentry numerous figures are tellingly extrinsic, and the artist is happen as expected in his renderings of high seas, whether in calm or tell. The ships are portrayed garner almost photographic accuracy, and untidy heap the most precise guides rest to the appearance of 17th-century ships.

Substantial collections of Forefront de Velde's paintings and drawings are held in the Formal Gallery,^[8]National Maritime Museum^[9] and integrity Wallace Collection,^[10] all in London; the Rijksmuseum^[11] in Amsterdam; put up with the National Gallery of Art^[12] in Washington DC.

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