Esaias van de Velde
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Esaias van de Velde (bapt. May 17, 1587, Amsterdam -buried Nov 18, 1630, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter.
Born in Amsterdam, whereto his Flemish father Hans had fled as a Protestant in 1585, he probably studied under his father and Gillis van Coninxloo, a landscape painter from Antwerp and a follower of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. He worked in Haarlem 1610-1618, where he joined the painters’ guild in 1612 along with Hercules Segers. This event in many ways established realistic landscape paintings as a separate genre in that part of the Netherlands. Van de Velde had been influenced by the German painter Adam Elsheimer to develop his paintings in a more naturalistic direction than his tutor, and to adopt a low viewpoint and a triangular composition.
In addition to landscapes, Esaias van de Velde also painted genre and military paintings. He died in The Hague in 1630, where he had been Court Painter to the Prince Maurits and Frederick Henry. His students included Jan van Goyen and Jan Asselyn. A cousin of Jan van de Velde, Esaias was no relation of the family of Willem van de Velde.
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- George S. Keyes, Esaias van den Velde, 1587-1630 (1984)
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