Vandevelde

Vandevelde, WILLIAM, the Elder, was born at Leyden about 1611. Till 1657 he practised his calling as a marine painter at Amsterdam, then settled in England, and became painter of sea-fights to Charles II. and James II. He died in London in 1693.—WILLIAM VANDEVELDE, the Younger, was born at Leyden or at Amsterdam in 1633, and in due time followed his father to England, where Charles II. employed him and gave him a pension of £100 a year. He died at Greenwich, 6th April 1707, leaving behind ample justification for his fame as one of the greatest of marine painters. Smith catalogues 330 of his paintings.—ADRIAN VANDEVELDE, his brother, born at Amsterdam in 1639, gained high estimation as an animal and landscape painter, and died 21st January 1672. See E. Michel, Les Van de Velde (1892).