Adam, Abraham, or Adriaen van Salm, also van (der) Salm (c.1660–1720), was a Dutch draftsman and painter. He produced primarily
marine art. These were done in pen with
India ink applied to a cloth or a pre-processed panel.
Adriaen van Salm was born in
Delfshaven. He was the father of Roelof van Salm and in 1706 he was listed as a draughtsman member of the
Guild of Saint Luke in
Delft
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. The
Dordrechts Museum mentions further that he was also a schoolmaster and later a
draper. Salm was the father and teacher of the artist
Roelof van Salm
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*Roelof Botha (born 1973), venture capitalist and company director
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, who wielded the same technique as well as his father and especially scenes of ships and naval battles.
[ in the RKD] When
Abraham Jacob van der Aa was writing, he saw a painting by this artist in the collection of the marine painter
Johannes Christiaan Schotel
Johannes Christiaan Schotel (11 November 1787 – 21 December 1838) was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands known for his marines and artwork. Talent was handed down by generation to the next throughout the Schotel family pro ...
.
A. Salm
in Van der Aa
References
External links
*
Adriaen van Salm
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1660 births
1720 deaths
18th-century Dutch painters
18th-century Dutch male artists
Painters from Rotterdam
Dutch male painters
Dutch marine artists
Painters from Delft
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