Jan van de Velde II
Jan van de Velde (* 1593 in Rotterdam or Delft ; † 1641 in Enkhuizen ) was a Dutch painter and engraver .
life and work
Jan van de Velde was the son of the well-known calligrapher and teacher Jan van de Velde I , who had moved from Antwerp to northern Holland in 1592 to avoid religious persecution, and a relative of the landscape painter Esaias van de Velde . He grew up in Rotterdam and learned engraving from Jakob Matham in Haarlem . From 1614 he belonged to the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. Over the next three years he created over a hundred engravings. This made him one of the most productive Haarlem artists of his time.
Like Esaias van de Velde, Jan van de Velde preferred landscapes as a motif, but also created more than 50 portraits, as well as genre scenes, illustrations for books and paintings. He was influenced, among others, by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn . In addition to his own motifs, in his later days he also processed templates from other artists into engravings.
Van de Velde's works can be found in numerous museums in Europe and the USA.
Jan van de Velde was the father of a son of the same name, the still life painter Jan van de Velde III .
literature
- Hermann Arthur Lier: Velde, van de . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 557-563.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography on britishmuseum.org ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Getty Museum calls him once a nephew and once a cousin of Esaias van de Velde.
- ↑ biography on getty.edu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Velde, Jan van de II |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter and engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1593 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam or Delft |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1641 |
| Place of death | Enkhuizen |