Oil painting -> List of Painters -> Willem van de Velde the Elder

Early Days:
   Willem van de Velde, known as the Elder, a marine draughtsman and painter, was the son of a Flemish skipper, Willem Willemszon van de Velde, and is commonly said to have been bred to the sea. In 1706 Bainbrigg Buckeridge noted that he “understood navigation very well”. He married Judith Adriaensdochter van Leeuwen in Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1631.

   His three known legitimate children were named Magdalena, born 1632; Willem, known as the Younger, also a marine painter, born 1633; and Adriaen, a landscape painter, born 1636.

Personal Details Name Willem van de Velde the Elder Place of birth Leiden, Holland, Dutch Republic Date of Birth 1611 Date of Death 13 December 1693 Nationality Dutch Field Marine painting Works Battle council on the De Zeven Provincien, The surrender of the Prince Royal

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