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

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

painter.

Biography

He was born in Amsterdam, where his

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father Hans had fled as a Protestant in 1585. He probably studied under his father and

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, a landscape painter from

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and a follower of

Pieter Brueghel the Elder Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (, ; ; – 9 September 1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called gen ...

. Van de Velde worked in

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from 1610 to 1618, and joined the

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in 1612 along with

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. 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

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and

Jan van de Velde Jan van de Velde the younger (1593 – ca. 1 November 1641) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver of animal, landscape and still-life subjects. He was the son of Jan van de Velde the Elder and the father of the still life painter Ja ...

.Houbraken thought he was the brother of Jan van de Velde and Willem van de Velde II His pupils were

Pieter van Laer Pieter Bodding van Laer (christened 14 December 1599, Haarlem – 1641 or later) was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He was active in Rome for over a decade and was known for genre scenes, animal paintings and landscapes placed in the environs o ...

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, Pieter de Molyn,

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, Anthony van de Velde (II), and

Jan van Goyen Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapesm marines, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter landscape, cityscap ...

.Esaias van de Velde
in the

RKD The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

He influenced

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, Nicolaes de Quade van Ravesteyn, Adriaen Adriaensz Ghibons, Jacob Wynants,

Zacharias Blijhooft Zacharias Blyhooft (or Zacharias Blijhooft; c. 1630 – 1681, Middelburg) was a Dutch painter, of whom but little is known; he lived in Middelburg from 1658/9 until his death in 1681, but probably learnt his trade elsewhere. Two pictures by him a ...

, Abraham Vinck, Willem Viruly, and

Jan Asselyn Jan Asselijn (c.1610 – October 1, 1652) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Asselijn was born at Dieppe from a French Huguenot family as ''Jean Asselin''. He received instruction from Esaias van de Velde (1587–1630), and distingu ...

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

Esaias was not related to

Willem van de Velde Willem van de Velde the Elder (1610/11 – 13 December 1693) was a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter, who produced many precise drawings of ships and ink paintings of fleets, but later learned to use oil paints like his son. Biography Wi ...

, but he was the cousin of Jan van de Velde. He died and was buried at

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...

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