Jan van de Velde the younger (1593 – ca. 1 November 1641) was a

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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 Jan Jansz van de Velde.

Biography

Van de Velde was born in either

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, to calligrapher Jan van de Velde the Elder from

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and Maijcken Van Bracht from

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. He was apprenticed to engraver

Jacob Matham Jacob Matham (15 October 1571 – 20 January 1631), of Haarlem, was a famous engraver and pen-draftsman. Biography He was the stepson and pupil of painter and draftsman Hendrik Goltzius, and brother-in-law to engraver Simon van Poelenburgh, hav ...

in 1613, entered the

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guild in 1614, and then probably visited Italy. He is better known for his etching and engraving than for his painting. According to Houbraken, he was the brother of

Esaias van de Velde Esaias van de Velde (17 May 1587 (baptized) – 18 November 1630 (buried) ) was a Dutch landscape painter. Biography He was born in Amsterdam, where his Flemish father Hans had fled as a Protestant in 1585. He probably studied under his fath ...

and

Willem van de Velde the Elder 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 W ...

, but according to John Denison Champlin, Esaias was his cousin, and he was no relation at all to the family of Willem. He died in

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Drawings of Haarlem

In 1616, he drew several scenes of Haarlem as a series of 26 landscape prints. The success of this venture led him to expand it thirty years later to 60 prints, most of which are in the possession of the North Holland Archives. In the archives are also a few prints from a series of 12 local landscapes by Esaias, which indicates that they may have collaborated on this project. Upon the death of his publisher, his works were offered for sale in 1674 in an advertisement in the

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:Advertisements in the Oprechte Haerlemse Courant of 1674

References

Oeuvre of Jan van de Velde
by Johan Philip van der Kellen and Daniel Franken, F. Muller & Co., 1883

External links

Vermeer and The Delft School
a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Jan van de Velde Dutch engravers People from South Holland 1593 births 1641 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters {{Netherlands-painter-stub