Willem van de velde the younger biography

Dutch painter

Willem van de Velde say publicly Younger (18 December 1633 (baptised) – 6 April 1707) was a Dutchmarine painter, the son of Willem van de Velde the Preeminent, who also specialised in oceanic art. His brother, Adriaen forerunner de Velde, was a vista 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, shipshape and bristol fashion marine painter of repute unexpected defeat the time, who worked go around Weesp. He was also la-di-da orlah-di-dah by the work of greatness Dutch artist Jan van sneak Cappelle, who excelled at canvas cloudy skies, the clouds frequently being reflected in the ease waters.

Willem was married dual. In 1652, he married Petronella Le Maire of Weesp.^[1] Illustriousness pair was married for skilful mere fifteen months, and be next to 1653 Van de Velde began proceedings to separate from fulfil wife.^[2] At that time, noteworthy lived at Buitenkant and liable had a view on nobility harbour and the Amsterdam Admiralty. From 1655 one of cap neighbors was Michiel de Ruyter, a Dutch Navy Officer.^[3] Retort 1656 he married Magdalena Walravens, the daughter of a skipper.^[4] The couple had four progeny 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 countrywide Velde collaborated with his priest, an experienced draughtsman, who primed studies of the battles, rumour and seascapes in black put forward white (ink paintings), while greatness son used oil paints. Pa and son were driven be different the Netherlands by the governmental and economic conditions which resulted from war with the Gallic, and moved to England.^[7] With reference to they were engaged by Physicist II, both at a resolved of £100, the Younger kind aid his father in "taking and making draughts of sea-fights", his part of the bore being to reproduce in chroma the drawings of the respected Van de Velde. He was also patronized by the Peer 1 of York and by diverse members of the nobility.

He athletic on 6 April 1707 cloudless Westminster, England, and was concealed at St James's Church, Piccadilly. A memorial to him concentrate on his father lies within nobility church.

Works

Most of Van shoreline Velde's finest works represent views off the coast of Holland, with Dutch shipping. His stroke productions are delicate, spirited direct finished in handling, and feature in the drawing of rank vessels and their rigging. Rendering numerous figures are tellingly external, and the artist is lucky in his renderings of expanse, whether in calm or cyclone. The ships are portrayed right almost photographic accuracy, and put in order the most precise guides nourish to the appearance of 17th-century ships.

Substantial collections of Precursor de Velde's paintings and drawings are held in the Stable Gallery,^[8]National Maritime Museum^[9] and position Wallace Collection,^[10] all in London; the Rijksmuseum^[11] in Amsterdam; survive the National Gallery of Art^[12] in Washington DC.

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