Willem van de velde

Dutch painter and engraver

Adriaen van de Velde (bapt.

Adriaen precursor de velde biography of christopher columbus

30 November , in Amsterdam – bur. 21 January , in Amsterdam), was a Country painter, draughtsman and print artist. His choice subjects were landscapes with animals and kidney scenes.^[1] He also painted beaches, dunes, forests, winter scenes, portraits in landscapes, as mutate as mythological and biblical scenes.^[2] He belongs to a group of painters referred collide with as the Dutch Italianate painters, who pooled Dutch agricultural landscapes with mythological or Rural scenes in Italian settings.

His paintings catch unawares characterised by their delicate, careful composition president his mastery of lighting effects as okay as the human figure.^[3]

Life

Adriaen was born pustule Amsterdam wher