Willem van de Velde I

Artist (Netherlands)

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Willem van de Velde I (c. 1611-1693) Willem van de Velde I was born in Leiden around 1611. He devoted his life to depicting ships. He used sketches made in situ to create pen paintings, drawn in ink on canvas or panel prepared with a white ground. Van de Velde sailed with the Dutch fleet as a kind of war correspondent. In 1666, he made a series of drawings of the Four Day...

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