Discover painter, pen artist, draftsperson Willem van de Velde (I)

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: Velde, Willem van de (de Oude)
Velde, William van de (the elder)
Vandervelde, Willem (I)
Van de Velde, William (I)

Qualifications: painter, pen artist, draftsperson, print artist, court painter, tapestry designer
was a sailor as a youngster; became official painter of the Dutch navy; worked for Cornelis Tromp; court painter of Charles II

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish, English
worked the last 20 years of his life in England

Born: Leiden (city) 1610/1611
c. 1610-1611; according to Houbraken 1718 he was born in Leiden in 1610. Houbraken was informed by the daughter of Willem's brother Adriaen van de Velde.

Deceased: Greenwich (London) 1693-12-13
He was carried from his home in Sackville Street in Piccadilly to the Parish Church of St. James, and buried there on the 16th of December 1693 (Houbraken 1718).

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of the skipper Willem Willemsz van de Velde (born c. 1572) and Aeltgen Gerytsdr; he married in Leiden on 30 July 1631 to Judith Adriaens van Leeuwen; father of Willem van de Velde II and Adriaen van de Velde

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

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178 hits in RKDimages as artist
36 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
3638 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
4 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1638 - 1693
His earliest dated work is of 1638, but then he probably was already active as an artist for some time.

Active in

Noorwegen 1629
possibly in 1629 (Daalder 2016, p. 35-37)
Leiden (stad) 1631 - 1635
married there in 1631
Amsterdam (stad) 1636 - 1672
c. 1636
Flekkerøy 1641
According to a drawing dated 1641 Van de Velde was in fiord in Norway called 'vleckeren', probably identical to Flekkerøy (Daalder 2016, p. 103, 214, note 3).
Amsterdam (stad)
Vlieland (gemeente, eiland) 1644 - 1645
c. 1644-1645
Amsterdam (stad)
Kopenhagen 1658
took part in an expedition
Amsterdam (stad)
Bergen (Noorwegen) 1665
took part in an expedition
Amsterdam (stad)
Solebay (Suffolk) 1672-06
Van de Velde was still living in Amsterdam, but the correspondence of Pieter Blaeu reveals that he was absent from the city for three weeks at the time of the battle of Solebay, which he clearly witnessed at first hand. There are many drawings by Van de Velde showing the lead-up to the battle, and also various moments in the action.
Amsterdam (stad)
Londen (Engeland) 1672 - 1674
In February 1674 both father and son received an annual salary of 100 pounds a year from the court (Robinson 1990, vol. 1, p. xx). This was seperately from payments for artworks, the disposal of a house and commissions for other patrons (Daalder 2016, p. 143).
Amsterdam (stad) 1674-07-10 - 1674-07-17
was in Amsterdam for a week to fetch his wife (Daalder 2016, p. 143)
Londen (Engeland) 1674 - 1693

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Connections with other artists

Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Velde, Adriaen van de
Velde, Willem van de (II)
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Dubbels, Hendrick Jacobsz.
Gore, Charles
Vale, Henry
Vale, Rchard
Zeeman, Reinier

Charles Gore (1729-1807) has worked up many drawings of the Van de Veldes, see for example cat. art dealer Laurentius no. 20, Voorschoten 1985, no. 16, fig.
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Vernet, Claude Joseph
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Crawford, Edmund Thornton
Woodcock, Robert
Serres, Dominic (I)

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: marine (genre), portrait, architecture (genre)

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 36 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 275, 354-356; vol. 2 (1719), p. 131, 132, 325
Walpole et al. 1762/1876 (ed. Wornum) , vol. 2, p. 138-139
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1927 (English edition) , vol. 7, p. 1-157
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 755-756
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 34 (1940), p. 203
Gerson 1942/1983 , passim
Witt Checklist 1978
Van der Willigen/De Kinkelder (typescript 1993/1998)
Giltaij/Kelch 1996 , p. 411-428 and passim
Briels 1997 , p. 393-394
Kollmann 2000 , p. 277
Dupont 2005 , p. 242, 263
Auction London (Sotheby's) 9 July 2014 , nos. 27-53: The Northumberland Van de Velde's
Daalder 2016
Saur 1992- , vol. 112 (2021), p. 369
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

P. Haverkorn van Rijsewijk, 'Willem van de Velde de Oude, zijn leven en zijn werk', Oud-Holland 16 (1898), p. 65-78
P. Haverkorn van Rijsewijk, 'De eerste oorlog met Engeland en W. van de Velde de Oude', Oud-Holland 17 (1899), p. 33-46
P. Haverkorn van Rijsewijk, 'Willem van de Velde de Oude, te zee en te land (1657-Juni 1666)', Oud-Holland 18 (1900), p. 21-44
P. Haverkorn van Rijsewijk, 'Willem van de Velde de Oude', Oud-Holland 20 (1902), p. 170-192 and 225-247
O. Andrup, 'Slaget I Øresund 1658. Fremstillet af Willem van de Velde', Kunstmuseets Årsskrift 11-12 (1924-1925), 1926, p. 156-160
J.A. Hamel, ‘Een droom van Willem van de Velde, den Zeeschilder’, Historia 2 (1936), p. 145-146
K. Langendijk, 'Een Van de Velde aankoop door Kardinaal Leopoldo de' Medici in het jaar 1672', Oud Holland 67 (1961), p. 97-106
R.E.J. Weber, 'Willem van de Velde de Oude als topograaf van onze zeegaten', Oud Holland 90 (1976), p. 115-131
R.E.J. Weber, 'The artistic relationship between the ship draughtsman Willem van de Velde the Elder and his son the marine painter in the year 1664', Master Drawings 17 (1979), p. 152-161
E.H.H. Archibald, 'The Willem van de Veldes, their background and influence on maritime painting in England', Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 130 (1982), p. 351
D. Freedberg, A. Burnstock and A. Phenix, 'Paintings or prints? Experiens Sillemans and the Origins of the Grisaille Sea-piece: Notes on a rediscovered technique', Print Quarterly 1 (1984), p. 149-172
W. Kloek, 'De trots van Tromp. Over het Tromp-ensemble en de waardering voor de penschilderijen van Willem van de Velde de Oude in het Rijksmuseum', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 50 (2002), p. 419-423
W. Kloek, 'Nogmaals, de trots van Tromp', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 51 (2003), p. 369-371
R. Prud'homme van Reine, 'Nog één keer de trots van Tromp', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 52 (2004), p. 335-337
M. Bijl, 'Willem van de Velde. Marine draughtsman', The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 58 (2010), p. 191-197
B. Noldus, 'A spider in its web: agent and artist Michel le Blon and his Northern European network', in: M. Keblusek and B. Noldus, Double Agents: Cultural and Political Brokerage in Early Modern Europe, Leiden 2011, p. 161-191, esp. p. 184-187
E. Löffler, 'Getekend op doek of paneel: het penschilderij', Desipientia 19 (2012), no. 1, p. 23-26
S. Karst, 'Off to a new Cockaigne: Dutch migrant artists in London, 1660-1715', Simiolus 37 (2013-2014), p. 25-60
C. de la Peña McTigue, 'Van de Velde Drawings at the National Maritime Museum: Looking at Conservation and Technical Research', Codart eZine no. 5, winter 2014 (online)

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Archive location: archief Eric C. Palmer
archief Richard E.J. Weber
Project: Gerson Digital : Denmark
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Gerson Digital : United Kingdom
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