Esaias van de Velde

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Vigilantes in ambush in the dunes (1620/30)
Esaias van de Velde, The Cattle Ferry ( 1622 )
Esaias van de Velde, View from Zierikzee ( 1623 )

Esaias van de Velde (* around 1590 in Amsterdam , † 1630 in The Hague ) was a Dutch painter , draftsman and etcher .

Life

He was the son of the Antwerp painter Hans van de Velde and a student of G. van Coninxloo and David Vinckboons . From 1612 van de Velde was a member of the Guild of St. Luke . Although he was only active in Haarlem from 1610 to 1618 , he is considered a representative of the Haarlem School of Painting, who set new accents in the landscape with his atmospheric execution . In addition to landscapes with staffage, he painted depictions of cities , genre scenes and battle pictures .

Probably inspired by the copper engravings by Antonio Tempesta after Otto van Veen - the same source from which the Italian battle painters drew - Esaias van de Velde began his first experiments and soon became the founder of a whole school of battle painters. Typical of his depictions of fighting infantry are the pikemen's lances pointing towards one another in a fan-shaped manner , which can also be found in the battle depictions of Aniello Falcone . The lowering of the horizon and the division of the picture into different picture levels gave these pictures a typical northern Dutch character.

His late work becomes richer in composition and more colorful. He also painted table parties with moralizing overtones and equestrian fights, which served as a model for many later horse painters.

Among his students were Jan van Goyen , Pieter de Neyn and Jan Asselijn .

His son Esaias, also called Esaias II, is also mentioned as a painter in Amsterdam in 1671.

Works (selection)

  • Vigilantes in ambush in the dunes , around 1620/30
  • The cattle ferry , 1622
  • View of Zierikzee , 1623
  • Nocturnal battle between Dutch horsemen and Spanish foot soldiers , 1623, oil on panel 29.5 × 46 cm, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam
  • Rider in a landscape
  • Mountain landscape
  • Garden party
  • Winter landscape with a farm 1624, Mauritshuis Den Haag

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Bußmann , Heinz Schilling : 1648 - War and Peace in Europe. Catalog volume and two text volumes, Münster 1998 [Documentation of the Council of Europe exhibition on the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in Münster and Osnabrück.] Münster / Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-88789-127-9 , p. 146 f.
  2. ↑ According to Thieme-Becker .

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personal data
SURNAME Velde, Esaias van de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter, draftsman and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH around 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH 1630
Place of death The hague