Jan van de Velde
Jan van de Velde the younger (1593 – c. 1 November 1641) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker, mostly 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. • Illustration — Engraving by Jan van de Velde of songwriter Jan Jansz Starter portrayed as poet of the lyric of love in 1621.
Also recorded as Jan van de Velde (II) · Jan van de Velde II · Jan van de (II) Velde · Jan Vanderveldt
Jan van de Velde
Jan van de Velde · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland · CC0
- Born
- 1593.
- Died
- 1641.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Occupation
- engraver, painter, graphic artist, copper engraver, visual artist, printmaker, draftsperson and etcher.
- Known for
- Winter landscape.
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Jan van de Velde the younger (1593 – c. 1 November 1641) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker, mostly 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. • Illustration — Engraving by Jan van de Velde of songwriter Jan Jansz Starter portrayed as poet of the lyric of love in 1621.
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Biography
The swans symbolize himself and pull Cupido away from The Isle of Dogs.
Van de Velde was born in either Delft or Rotterdam, to the calligrapher Jan van de Velde the Elder from Antwerp and Maijcken Van Bracht from Turnhout. He was apprenticed to engraver Jacob Matham in 1613, entered the Haarlem 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 and Willem van de Velde the Elder, 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 Enkhuizen.
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Life and career
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1593
Jan van de Velde born at Rotterdam.
1641
Jan van de Velde died at Enkhuizen.
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 Haarlems Dagblad:
![A strong north wind blowing a yacht and trees on an estuary, people out in the cold, and, above, the zodiacal sign of Pisces (fish); representing the month February. Etching by W. Hollar, ca. 1628, after J. van de Velde II., [1628?], by Jan van de Velde](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0047984ETR/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
A strong north wind blowing a yacht and trees on an estuary, people out in the cold, and, above, the zodiacal sign of Pisces (fish); representing the month February. Etching by W. Hollar, ca. 1628, after J. van de Velde II., [1628?], by Jan van de Velde
Jan van de Velde · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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- 1.The J. Paul Getty Museum.
- 2.Cita web https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/79783 Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
- 3.Cita web http://www.wga.hu/bio/v/velde2/jan2/biograph.html The Web Gallery of Art
- 4.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan-van-de-velde-winterlandschaft.jpg Paesaggio invernale - Commons
- 5.Cita web http://www.wga.hu/html/v/velde2/jan2/skaters.html Skaters on a River - The Web Gallery of Art
- 6.Cita web http://www.wga.hu/html/v/velde2/jan2/landscap.html Paesaggio con figure su una strada - The Web Gallery of Art
- 7.Cita web http://www.wga.hu/html/v/velde2/jan2/landscap.html Ritratto di Petrus Scriverius - The Web Gallery of Art
- 8.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_van_de_Velde_II_Faschingsdienstag.jpg Giovedì di Carnevale - Commons
- 9.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Village-Street.big.jpg Strada di villaggio - Commons
- 10.Cita web https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arolsen_Klebeband_01_259.jpg Ritratto di Carlo I del Liechtenstein - Commons
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