Jan van de Velde

Jan van de Velde (* 1593 in Rotterdam and Delft, † 1641 in Enkhuizen ) was a Dutch painter and engraver.

Life and work

Jan van de Velde was a son of the famous calligrapher and teacher Jan van de Velde I, who had moved into northern Holland from Antwerp in 1592 to escape religious persecution, and a relative of the landscape painter Esaias van de Velde. He grew up in Rotterdam and learned the Kupferstecherei with Jacob Matham in Haarlem. From 1614 belonged to the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. Within the next three years, he created over a hundred stitches. He was one of the most prolific artists of his time in Haarlem.

Jan van de Velde preferred as Esaias van de Velde as a motive landscapes, but also created more than 50 portraits, genre scenes also, illustrations for books and paintings. He was influenced among others by Rembrandt van Rijn Harmensz. Besides our own designs he worked in his later years also submissions from other artists stings.

The work of van de Velde found in numerous museums in Europe and the United States.

Jan van de Velde was the father of a son of the same name, the still life painter Jan van de Velde III.