Jan van de Velde the Elder (1568,

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– 1623,

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), was a Dutch calligrapher, writing teacher, and engraver. He was the father of the engraver

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 ...

Biography

According to the RKD he was possibly the pupil of Felix van Sambix. He married Mayken van Bracht from

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, sister-in-law of the publisher Jan van Waesberghe, in 1592 in

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and opened a French school there.Jan van de Velde (I)
in the

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Their son,

, became a painter. He published his calligraphy in the ''Spieghel der Schrijfkonste'' in 1605. In 1620 moved to Haarlem, where he was possibly the teacher of the Haarlem calligraphers Jean de la Chambre or Nicolaes Bodding van Laer.

References

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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 the Elder {{DEFAULTSORT:Velde, Jan 1568 births 1623 deaths Dutch engravers Artists from Antwerp Calligraphers from the Northern Netherlands