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Two Skirmishes, Dresden Museum; Battle of Prague, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Landscape with Cattle (1625), Winter Landscape (1629), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Winter Scene with Skaters (1615 or 1635?), Leipsic Museum; Pleasure Party on the Ice in a City Moat (1618), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Cavalry Fight, Museum, Vienna; Stag Hunt, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Siege of Bois-le-Duc, Schönborn Gallery, ib.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, ii. 203; Dohme, 1ii.; Kramm, vi. 1687; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 358; Van der Willigen, 305; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 154.
VELDE, JAN VAN DE, the younger, born in Haarlem about 1598 (?). Dutch school; landscape, animal, and still-life painter, pupil of Jacob Matham, entered the Haarlem guild in 1614, probably visited Italy; better known as an etcher and engraver. Works: Still-Life (1655), Brussels Museum; Landscape with Tobias and the Angel, Brunswick Gallery; Landscapes with Figures (2), Christiania Gallery; do. (1), Gotha Museum.—Bode, Studien, 322; Havard, A. & A. holl., iv. 157; Kramm, vi. 1689; Rep. f. Kunstwissenschaft, v. 245; Van der Willigen, 303.
VELDE, WILLEM VAN DE, the elder,
born at Leyden in 1610, died at Greenwich,
England, buried in London, Dec. 16, 1693.
Dutch school; began life as a sailor, but
soon became known as a nautical draughts-*man,
in which capacity he was employed
by the States of Holland. Charles II., who
had known him in Holland, invited him to
England in 1675 "to make draughts of sea
fights," with a salary of £100, which was
continued by James II. There is a series
of twelve naval battles and seaports by him
at Hampton Court. He was known in England
as Old Vandevelde, to distinguish him
from his son Willem, the younger. In the
Hermitage, St. Petersburg, are two Views
of a Roadstead in Holland, by him.
VELDE, WILLEM VAN DE, the younger,
born in Amsterdam
in 1633,
died at Greenwich,
April 6,
1707. Dutch
school; marine
painter, son and
pupil of Willem
van de Velde, the
elder, and pupil
of Simon de Vlieger.
Accompanied his father on his sea
voyages, and entered with him, in 1675,
the service of Charles II. of England. In
1686 he returned for a short period to
Holland, but was called again to England
by James II. He is the greatest marine
painter of the Dutch school. Works: Shipping
in a Calm (1657), Coast Scene (1661),
Storm at Sea (1673), twelve others, National
Gallery, London; Sea Coast (1669), Fisherman
Putting off (1671), two others, Buckingham
Palace, ib.; Dutch Coast (1656),
Scene from Naval Battle, five others, Bridgewater
Gallery, ib.; La petite flotte, Lord
Ashburton, ib.; two, Mr. Hope, ib.; four,
Mr. Munro, ib.; two, Mr. Baring, ib.; Fishing
Boats in a Calm, Engagement between
English and Dutch Fleets, National Gallery,
Edinburgh; Flag-Ship, Dutch Fleet,
Calm Sea with Vessels, Louvre; Calm Sea,
Antwerp Museum; View of the Zuyder
Zee, Brussels Museum; View of the Y,
Calm Sea with Vessels, Hague Museum;
Flag-Ship Prince Royal striking her Colours,
Four Men-of-War in same Action,
Agitated Sea with Sailing Vessels, View of
Amsterdam (1686), Calm Seas (3), Coast of
Scheveningen, Breeze, Ship firing Volleys,
Amsterdam Museum; Harbour of Texel
(1673), Rotterdam Museum; Four Vessels
(1653), Calm Sea, Cassel Gallery; do., and
Marine View with Storm passing off, Old
Pinakothek, Munich; Dutch Frigates, Man-of-War
Firing, Berlin Museum; Agitated