Esaias van de Velde

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 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 active in Haarlem until 1618 only 1610, he is regarded as representative of the Haarlem school of painting, who sat with its atmospheric charged design new accents in the landscape. Besides landscapes with Masked he painted city views, genre scenes and battle scenes.

Well inspired by the engravings by Antonio Tempesta by Otto van Veen - the same source from which drew the Italian painter of battle - Esaias van de Velde began his first experiments and soon became the founder of a whole school of battle painters. Typical fighting for his depictions Infantry are the fan-shaped oppositely directed lances of the pikemen, which are found also in the battle scenes of Aniello Falcone. By lowering the horizon and the division of the image into different image planes happening these images were given a typical northern Dutch character.

His late work will be richer in the composition and colorful. In addition, he painted table companies with moralizing overtones and rider battles that served for many later painter of horses as a model.

Among his pupils were among other things, Jan van Goyen, Pieter de Neyn and Jan Asselijn.

Works (selection)

• Vigilantes in the dunes in ambush to 1620/30
• The cattle ferry, 1622
• View Zierikzee, 1623
• Nocturnal fight by Dutch riders and the Spanish foot soldiers, 1623, oil on panel 29.5 x 46 cm, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
• Rider in a Landscape
• Mountain landscape
• Garden Party
• Winter landscape