Willem van de Velde the Elder

This article is about the father and painter. For his firstborn son, also a painter, see Willem van de Velde the Younger. For his younger son, another painter, see Adriaen van de Velde.

Willem van de Velde the Elder
Willem Gerard van de Velde the Elder (Gerard Sibelius, after Godfrey Kneller)
Born
Willem van de Velde

1610/11
Leiden, Holland, Dutch Republic
Died(1693-12-13)13 December 1693
Sackville Street, London, England.
Known forMarine painting

Willem van de Velde the Elder (1610/11 – 13 December 1693) was a Dutch Golden Age seascape painter, who produced many precise drawings of ships and ink paintings of fleets, but later learned to use oil paints like his son.