VELDE Two Skirmishes, Dresden Museum ; Battle of Prague, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck ; Land- scape with Cattle (1625), Winter Landscape (1629), Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Winter Scene with Skaters (1615 or 1635 ?), Leipsic Mu- seum ; Pleasure Party on the Ice in a City Moat (1618), Old Pinakothek, Munich ; Cav- alry Fight, Museum, Vienna ; Stag Hunt, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. ; Siege of Bois-le- EVAAJDEN'VEtDE Due, Schonborn Gallery, ib. Ch. Blanc, cole hollandaise ; Burger, Musees, ii. 203 ; Dohme, lii. ; 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 visit- ed Italy ; better known as an etcher and engraver. Works : Still-Life (1655), Brus- sels Museum ; Landscape with Tobias and the Angel, Brunswick Gallery ; Landscapes with Figures (2), Christiauia 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, bom 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 H., 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 H. There is a series of twelve naval battles and seaports by him at Hampton Court. He was known in Eng- land 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 young- er, born in Am- sterdam in 1633, died at Green- wich, April 6, 1707. Dutch school ; marine painter, son and pupil of Willem van de Velde, the elder, and pupil of Simon de Vlie- ger. Accompanied his father on his sea voyages, and entered with him, in 1675, the service of Charles IL of England. In 1686 he returned for a short period to Holland, but was called again to England by James H. He is the greatest marine painter of the Dutch school. Works : Ship- ping in a Calm (1657), Coast Scene (1661), Storm at Sea (1673), twelve others, National Gallery, London ; Sea Coast (1669), Fish- erman Putting off (1G71), two others, Buck- ingham Palace, ib.; Dutch Coast (1656), Scene from Naval Battle, five others, Bridge- water Gallery, ib.; La petite flotte, Lord Ashburton, ib.; two, Mr. Hope, ib.; four, Mr. Munro, ib. ; two, Mr. Baring, ib. ; Fish- ing Boats in a Calm, Engagement between English and Dutch Fleets, National Gal- lery, 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 Col- ours, Four Meu-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 Filing, Berlin Museum ; Agitated 338
