Willem van de Velde the Younger
Paintings
The English royal yacht Mary about to fire a salute
Ships off the coast
Entrance to a Dutch Port
A Dutch Ship and Other Small Vessels in a Strong Breeze
A Dutch Ship, a Yacht and Smaller Vessels in a Breeze
A Dutch Vessel in a Strong Breeze
A Small Dutch Vessel close-hauled in a Strong Breeze
An English Vessel and Dutch Ships Becalmed
Boats pulling out to a Yacht in a Calm
Dutch Ships and Small Vessels Offshore in a Breeze
Dutch Vessels Inshore and Men Bathing
Dutch Vessels lying Inshore in a Calm, one Saluting
Small Dutch Vessels Aground at Low Water in a Calm
Two Small Vessels and a Dutch Man-of-War in a Breeze.
The captured ships
Drawings
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The English royal yacht Mary about to fire a salute
Willem van de Velde the Younger (bapt. 18 December 1633; died 6 April 1707) was a Dutch marine painter.
Biography
Willem van de Velde was baptised on 18 December 1633 in Leiden, Holland, Dutch Republic.
A son of Willem van de Velde the Elder, also a painter of sea-pieces, Willem van de Velde, the younger, was instructed by his father, and afterwards by Simon de Vlieger, a marine painter of repute at the time, and had achieved great celebrity by his art before he came to London. By 1673 he had moved to England, where he was engaged by Charles II, at a salary of £100, to aid his father in "taking and making draughts of sea-fights", his part of the work being to reproduce in color the drawings of the elder van de Velde. He was also patronized by the Duke of York and by various members of the nobility.
He died on 6 April 1707 in London, England and was buried at St. James's Church.
Works
Dutch men-o'-war and other shipping in a calm. c. 1665
The pendants The cannon shot and The gust (c. 1680), in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Most of Van de Velde's finest works represent views off the coast of Holland, with Dutch shipping. His best productions are delicate, spirited and finished in handling, and correct in the drawing of the vessels and their rigging. The numerous figures are tellingly introduced, and the artist is successful in his renderings of sea, whether in calm or storm. The ships are portrayed with almost photographic accuracy, and are the most precise guides available to the appearance of 17th-century ships.
There are a number of van de Velde's marine paintings in the Wallace Collection, London, including "The Embarkation of King Charles II at Scheveningen, 1660".
References
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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