Willem van de Velde the Elder
Dutch painter
Willem van de Velde the Elder 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. Wikipedia
Born: 1611, Leiden, Netherlands
Died: December 13, 1693 (age 82 years), Sackville Street, London, United Kingdom
Children: Willem van de Velde the Younger and Adriaen van de Velde
On view: Rijksmuseum
Grandchild: Willem van de Velde
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