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Van De Velde; A Catalogue of the Paintings and the Younger Willem Van De Velde

Van De Velde; A Catalogue of the Paintings and the Younger Willem Van De Velde

Robinson, M.S. (Michael Strang) Thick Quartos. 2 volume set. Vol. I: 566pp. and Vol.II: 567-1153 pp. and (44)pp Index to dating paintings and a summary index. Beautifully illustrated in color and in black and white. The marine draughtsman Willem van de Velder the Elder was born in Leiden in 1611, the son of the master of a transport vessel. As a boy he travelled with his father which formed his career as a marine artist. His earliest drawings from the 1630's and 1640's depicted individual ships and the Dutch fleetat rest. However, he spent most of his career portraying naval battles as he travelled with the Dutch navy. During the winter of 1672, Van de Velde left Amsterdam for England joining his son. Charles II awared him a grant to making draughts of Sea Fights, while his son was responsible to put them into colors. After his father's death in 1693, Van de Velde (the younger) continued to oversee the studio. Van de Velde's paintings, the earliest of which date from the 1650s, demonstrate the influence of his father's precise drawings and pen paintings of ships and battle scenes as well as De Vlieger's atmospheric coastlines. Van de Velde often depicted beach scenes and boats along the coast with an attention to the movement of light and clouds over calm or stormy waters. His subject matter evolved over the course of his career as he received more commissions to record Dutch and English naval battles. Van de Velde's sensitive renderings of the ships and sea made him one of the most influential marine painters of the seventeenth century. Both volumes bound in blue clotjhspines lettered in gilt, innear fine pictorial dust jackets hused within publisher's cloth covered slipcase.
  • $438