Page:Cyclopedia of painters and paintings (IA cyclopediaofpain04cham).pdf/355

 Two Skirmishes, Dresden Museum; Battle of Prague, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Landscape with Cattle (1625), Winter Landscape (1629), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Winter Scene with Skaters (1615 or 1635?), Leipsic Museum; Pleasure Party on the Ice in a City Moat (1618), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Cavalry Fight, Museum, Vienna; Stag Hunt, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Siege of Bois-le-Duc, Schönborn Gallery, ib.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, ii. 203; Dohme, 1ii.; Kramm, vi. 1687; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 358; Van der Willigen, 305; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 154.

VELDE, JAN VAN DE, the younger, born in Haarlem about 1598 (?). Dutch school; landscape, animal, and still-life painter, pupil of Jacob Matham, entered the Haarlem guild in 1614, probably visited Italy; better known as an etcher and engraver. Works: Still-Life (1655), Brussels Museum; Landscape with Tobias and the Angel, Brunswick Gallery; Landscapes with Figures (2), Christiania Gallery; do. (1), Gotha Museum.—Bode, Studien, 322; Havard, A. & A. holl., iv. 157; Kramm, vi. 1689; Rep. f. Kunstwissenschaft, v. 245; Van der Willigen, 303.

VELDE, WILLEM VAN DE, the elder, born at Leyden in 1610, died at Greenwich, England, buried in London, Dec. 16, 1693. Dutch school; began life as a sailor, but soon became known as a nautical draughts-*man, in which capacity he was employed by the States of Holland. Charles II., who had known him in Holland, invited him to England in 1675 "to make draughts of sea fights," with a salary of £100, which was continued by James II. There is a series of twelve naval battles and seaports by him at Hampton Court. He was known in England as Old Vandevelde, to distinguish him from his son Willem, the younger. In the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, are two Views of a Roadstead in Holland, by him.

VELDE, WILLEM VAN DE, the younger, born in Amsterdam in 1633, died at Greenwich, April 6, 1707. Dutch school; marine painter, son and pupil of Willem van de Velde, the elder, and pupil of Simon de Vlieger. Accompanied his father on his sea voyages, and entered with him, in 1675, the service of Charles II. of England. In 1686 he returned for a short period to Holland, but was called again to England by James II. He is the greatest marine painter of the Dutch school. Works: Shipping in a Calm (1657), Coast Scene (1661), Storm at Sea (1673), twelve others, National Gallery, London; Sea Coast (1669), Fisherman Putting off (1671), two others, Buckingham Palace, ib.; Dutch Coast (1656), Scene from Naval Battle, five others, Bridgewater Gallery, ib.; La petite flotte, Lord Ashburton, ib.; two, Mr. Hope, ib.; four, Mr. Munro, ib.; two, Mr. Baring, ib.; Fishing Boats in a Calm, Engagement between English and Dutch Fleets, National Gallery, Edinburgh; Flag-Ship, Dutch Fleet, Calm Sea with Vessels, Louvre; Calm Sea, Antwerp Museum; View of the Zuyder Zee, Brussels Museum; View of the Y, Calm Sea with Vessels, Hague Museum; Flag-Ship Prince Royal striking her Colours, Four Men-of-War in same Action, Agitated Sea with Sailing Vessels, View of Amsterdam (1686), Calm Seas (3), Coast of Scheveningen, Breeze, Ship firing Volleys, Amsterdam Museum; Harbour of Texel (1673), Rotterdam Museum; Four Vessels (1653), Calm Sea, Cassel Gallery; do., and Marine View with Storm passing off, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Dutch Frigates, Man-of-War Firing, Berlin Museum; Agitated