Esaias van de Velde (17 May 1587 (baptized) – 18 November 1630 (buried) ) was a Dutch

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painter.

Biography

He was born in Amsterdam, where his

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father

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had fled as a Protestant in 1585. He probably studied under his father and Gillis van Coninxloo, a landscape painter from Antwerp and a follower of

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. Van de Velde worked in Haarlem from 1610 to 1618, and joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1612 along with Hercules Segers. This event in many ways established realistic landscape paintings as a separate genre in that part of the Netherlands. Van de Velde had been influenced by the German painter

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to develop his paintings in a more naturalistic direction than his tutor and to adopt a low viewpoint and a triangular composition. In addition to landscapes, van de Velde also painted

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and military paintings. He died in The Hague in 1630, where he had been Court Painter to the Prince Maurits and Frederick Henry. According to the RKD, he was influenced by Roelant Savery and Jan van de Velde.Houbraken thought he was the brother of Jan van de Velde and Willem van de Velde II His pupils were

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, Jan Martszen de Jonge,

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, Pieter de Neyn, Anthony van de Velde (II), and Jan van Goyen.Esaias van de Velde
in the RKD He influenced Palamedes Palamedesz. (I), Nicolaes de Quade van Ravesteyn, Adriaen Adriaensz Ghibons, Jacob Wynants, Zacharias Blijhooft, Abraham Vinck, Willem Viruly, and Jan Asselyn. Esaias van de Velde - A Village Looted at Night - KMS3923 - Statens Museum for Kunst

Esaias van de Velde - A Village Looted at Night - KMS3923 - Statens Museum for Kunst

Esaias was not related to Willem van de Velde, but he was the cousin of Jan van de Velde. He died and was buried at

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Works in museum collections

* ''Courtly Procession before Abstpoel Castle'', 1619

References

*George S. Keyes, ''Esaias van den Velde'', 1587-1630 (1984)

External links

Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamWorks and literature on Esaias van de Velde

Velde (van de Velde), Dutch painters familyVermeer and The Delft School
a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Esaias van der Velde {{DEFAULTSORT:Velde, Esaias Van De 1587 births 1630 deaths Painters from Amsterdam Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Haarlem